Jennifer's great idea to make this chart, orig w/ measles, TB and COVID.
@rdumont99 kicked @JenniferKShea and I to update, @jljcolorado joined. I dumped 18 mo of studies in and we searched a few new. There are more out there.
I said the evid was overwhelming.
There we go.
BTW if you think otherwise, make a chart for droplet ... go on ...
... I guarantee the following:
1. Droplet ones are "evidence for airborne is not sufficient", "we used surgical masks and didn't get sick" and "we p-tested and it's the nebulizer"
2. Fomite ones are "we painted (lots of) virus on hands" + "people touch their faces" t/f possible
Published link is
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
Easier to read at this link
ID/IPAC just followed preconceived notions, so when Hall in 1981 pointed away from air, having done a wholly inadequate sample size, it became the FOUNDATION fo RSV transmitting via droplet.
Cited by WHO rep, despite being wholly inadequate proof.
That study became mythologized in the literature ... nobody checking sources ...
(Go on, go look at how many introductions cite Hall 1981 for this stupid proposition. It's ridiculous.)
And the great irony, WHO would sometimes admit airborne in some of their transmission guidance. ?!
Big bureaucratic machine gonna bureaucratic machine, I guess.
Let me assist anyone looking into fomites, here are a bunch to start:
Enjoy the comments in these _pro-fomite articles_ that fomite couldn't sustain a flu epidemic, etc.
I have never found a single study proving droplet as mode of transmission (for resp diseases). All conjecture.
Math doesn't make sense
Isn't what we see in animals
Doesn't make sense evolutionarily
And was originally Chapin's _guess_ as to why people got sick when near ea other
Whereas just the airborne REVIEWS are slaughters.
And the list of refs just goes on and on back 110 years.
The @WHO even tried to discount droplet and their refs accidentally helped prove airborne!
What a lark!
Top salaries indeed!
Their refs hid that they referred to AN EMAIL to support droplet (but they cited a "rapid review" to hide the direct reference to the email)
An email isn't proof of anything!?!
They got defensive and accused air experts of "owning vent companies".
That got me mad.
So I ripped them new aerosols.
And really, at a certain point when people aren't listening, just put on a mask and protect yourself and walk away.
They'll never get it. They don't want to learn.
(Check date and here we are October 2021, now.)
Here's just one summary thread of all the history
Droplets are nonsense.
Do the small notations help or hinder? Let us know.
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
cc @JenniferKShea
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