Thread by @SourceControl21

Read this today
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"The airborne transmission of viruses is now well accepted & the question of how far virus particles can travel and remain viable has received much attention in recent times"
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Some aspects of the airborne transmission of infection 2009 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

"Deaths from hospital-acquired infections are very significant in numbers and from the point of view of personal tragedy, and the cost of treatment for those who survive is extremely high."

@WHO, @rki_de @dguv_ifa
this is important
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"People walking around can re-disperse dust particles from the floor (at the same time as shedding skin flakes from the body) (Bagnold 1960) and mechanical floor cleaning can substantially increase airborne particle concentrations."

@WHO @rki_de @dguv_ifa "In industrial clean rooms,
skin scale and micro-organism shedding was seen as constituting a major problem in the contamination of products such as microelectronics and in pharmaceuticals where both skin particles and associated micro-organisms were potential contaminants"

@WHO @rki_de @dguv_ifa "Finally, we do not believe that anybody would suggest
making hi-tech electronic equipment or manufacturing pharmaceuticals

(both of which have to be contamination free to satisfy consumer markets and regulators)
in unsuitable environments"

@WHO @rki_de @dguv_ifa " As medical care becomes increasingly sophisticated,
so does the need
for more appropriate hospitals and operational procedures to improve clinical outcomes.

It could be argued that many modern hospitals are not the right places to practise modern medicine "

@WHO @rki_de @dguv_ifa @threadreaderapp unroll