Thread by @jmcrookston

This is a very important paper.

Transmission over more than 2m with only 5 min exposure - captured by CCTV.

Contact tracers don't even look for these connections.

Actual article
jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10…

cc @jljcolorado @kprather88 @DrPieterPeach @DrKatrin_Rabiei @NjbBari3

https://twitter.com/AliNouriPhD/status/1334131904640131087

Right now when people tell you there is no airborne spread remember THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR AIRBORNE SPREAD BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT.

This is why elevator buttons get blamed instead of aerial transmission - they don't believe in aerial transmission.

Let me complete the thought.

IF YOU DO NOT LOOK FOR IT YOU WILL NEVER FIND IT.

Also, perhaps more appropriately:

IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FIND IT, JUST DON'T LOOK FOR IT.

At this point just retweet the hell out of the top paper (maybe go to Dr. Nouri's original - I don't care) and if anyone asks just say droplet is long dead and buried.

See, had they not expanded the search outside 2m, they would not necessarily have found this connection.

The overlap was so small, time-wise...

This one was basically destined for the "no epi link" except they caught it, by being open to over 2m and less than 15 minutes.

The schematic, and final figure from the paper.

This is a very important point many will miss, and which is consistent with what people have been saying and the restaurant outbreak in China:

A short follow up thread about contact tracers and designating things "fomite", etc.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1334152892140412929

By the way, Canadians, do you think you would ever see this here in our country?

Finally I think makes sense to drop this bat story here:

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1313208478731841542