Thread by @jmcrookston

Ebola transmits by air

Believe me (and others) or not, at your peril.

Just the main posts from the main thread. No time.

38 from hospital room? Touch? Sure. Tell me another one.

article talking about air

Infected the control monkeys in biocontainment lab ... by ... air.

Transmitted Ebola from pigs to monkeys via air. Found it in respiratory cells.

"supports the concept of airborne transmission" - they are trying to warn us but editors shut these papers down.

Hypothesis that it is not must cover all these edge cases as droplets, which again, was a made up thing from Chapin 1912.

Plus must account for modelling that shows it superspreads, and 3% of patients are responsible for 60-80% of cases or whatever.

I'm done w this denial

Main thread:



As I said at the top, personally, you believe as you wish. I'm not here to convince anyone. I just can't stand misinformation.

Other misinformation that will arise from denial/lack of crisis training:

Well people are certainly thinking about air on those numbers. Good

I'm not debating. Take it or leave it. Doesn't matter to me. Lots of info on PubMed. All free. People saying droplet haven't read, it's a knee-jerk resp

Not a single person has proven droplet in 3 yrs <shrug>

If you don't agree, no worries. Lots of Twitter left for you to explore :)

Like @EmojiSnakeGame, for example

Sounds like the locals understood more than some give them credit for.

They don't sound so panicky. They sound pretty darned logical actually, wanting isolation tents.

From WHO publication on Ebola 2014.

Didn't even want to come back to this thread but if people talk nonsense they get science back.

"Virtually all cell types"

/me taps the sign

Great little summary article.

Just one snippet here.

This whole article is a warning. It's just written in scientific language.

Disinformation *IS* a problem.

I will just point out it took me 5 seconds to find MORE refs about Ebola replicating in the lungs. There it is, hit #3 on a simple search. Oh, in fact #2 says it too.

Proof of those who assert _no_ replication in lung is on those who assert.

Please produce.

Hits #6 and #7 as well

I have another job, but here is the hit right after the CIDRAP one (see pic 1)

And if you pull the actual scientific report being referred to, it says it expressly (see pic 2)

Ah, the one two after that, too.

Anyway, enjoy your research, all.

Took some heat for this post, then got blocked. Saving this for when I am vindicated. Might take some years.

I'll wait.

waiting patiently :)