Science denial from @VFIpubs on @morningireland
.. 2 metre distance is not safe, #Covid19 builds up quickly & spreads like cigarette smoke indoors, pubs & restaurants are the highest risk of large super-spread events, & it’s proven internationally #pubs
(does this really need saying)
Covid doesn’t know if it’s a gastro pub or wet pub, or after closing time, or what the Level is, or what your dinner cost, or if you ate it, or if you’re 6km away, or only went in for 10 minutes
You catch it by inhaling virus in shared indoor air
HIQA advice to NPHET:
🦠 large numbers of clusters consistently observed [in] bars, nightclubs, restaurants, gyms
🦠 & many associated with superspreading events & large numbers of cases
🦠indoors, crowds, no masks, talking/singing, poor ventilation hiqa.ie/reports-and-pu…
Vintners Federation of Ireland/Failte Ireland #Covid19 advice is out of date, unscientific & unsafe, saying: ‘COVID-19 is not transmitted by air but from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth’ @VFIpubs@Failte_Ireland failtecdn.azureedge.net/failteireland/…
& this document links to out of date @ECDC_EU advice.. current update here:
‘SARS-CoV-2 transmission is particularly effective in crowded, confined indoor spaces’ ecdc.europa.eu/en/publication…
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Cork: ‘57 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were linked to a cáfe-restaurant where people from different households socialised’ #superspread echolive.ie/corknews/Covid…
South Korea: ‘one infected person attended five nightclubs, caused 50+ new infections’
Hong Kong: ‘106 cases linked back to exposures from staff & musicians at bars.. 73 of the people in this cluster caught virus at the bars, 39 were customers vox.com/21296067/coron…
HSE mask policy is ~not~ in accordance with current international scientific evidence, & is unsafe
🦠covid is airborne past 2m
🦠15 mins is not a safe time #TodayCB@TodaywithClaire@HSELive@hpscireland@HIQA
Research from China points to Ireland being very high-risk for virus spread in winter months. This study linked Spring hot-spot outbreaks (yellow zone) at 5-11°C & low humidity 1/ #Covid19jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
another study: ‘meteorological factors play independent role in #COVID19 transmission.. Local weather (low temp, mild diurnal temp range & low humidity) likely favor transmission.. each 1°C increase in [temp] related to decline of daily confirmed cases’ 2/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
‘Air temperature & humidity indicated to significantly influence transmission of COVID-19’.. the weather two weeks ago was correlated with confirmed new case counts.. epidemiological data were correlated with weather data 14 days ago’ 3/ medrxiv.org/content/10.110…