Thread by @LazarusLong13

Omicron. Hotel rooms.

TLDR? Could not pay me enough to stay in a hotel room. Stand alone motel cabin? Sure.
Hotel with corridors? No way.

Going to start with a quarantine hotel. They have CCTV and genomic confirmation, typically.

Will add more as time permits.

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Mainland china. Designated quarantine hotel (DQH).

Bets variant detected. Afterwards, HEPAS added to the corridors to stop cross-room transmission.

All good, right?

You would be wrong.

#Covid is airborne, and it is incredibly transmissible.

4 or less breaths transmissible in hospitals with 6 ACH (excellent ventilation). That was at the original Wuhan stage of things.

Now, with Omicron? Even with HEPAs in the corridor?

Transmission.

Now, they did point out the index case was not wearing a mask, or just a cloth mask, when they opened the door to get food or drop off the garbage in the corridor.

But was that the most likely root-cause?

No, a smoke test indicated that it was NOT air pouring under the door, but from when the doors were opened.

Next tweet. Their description.

This Omicron case ended up in a CDC EID write-up.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28…

Here's the link for the first study:
thelancet.com/journals/lanwp…

Anyway, the CDC one confirmed CCTV was available, and reviewed.

So. Just a hotel transmission of Omicron between two fully vaxxed people across a corridor with a HEPA in it.

Personally, I'll take my chances at the Bates Motel, before I'd ever set foot into Hotel CoVid.

Because that hotel stay could end up being a Long one.

By the way, this is a change in my position on hotels. Before I thought it would be ok if you sealed off your hotel room from air flow under the door.

Omicron has changed that calculation of risk for me.

This thread is continuing to get traction, and a lot of understandably concerned apartment dwellers are asking what they can do.

H/T @ArtburkNikki for:


Use the toilet paper test David talks about.

And then get a draft stopper.
amazon.com/Evelots-Double…

Thanks to @Amal4Solutions for these tests from covidstraighttalk.org/hacks-guides

Solutions?

A #corsirosenthalbox :
cleanaircrew.org/boxfanfilterfa…

A HEPA:

And as always, an out of the box solution.

Use PVC and plastic to make an airlock around your front door, with a HEPA in it.

Enter into the airlock, mask on. Twitter until the air has been changed over.

Exit, mask off.

Inside of your airlock, a 4" single #corsirosenthalbox overhead will give the same amount of cleaning as a 4 filter one.

And much quieter.

Aim down for air curtain effect.