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23 Mar, 11 tweets, 5 min read

NZ Aerosol Transmission Update - Mar 23

Comments on recent CDC report: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…

1/8 NZ Director-General of Health Dr. Bloomfield:“I think over the last month or 2 in particular, probably 3 months, there’s been much more emergent evidence about the importance & the significance of airborne transmission of Coronavirus being a way that people become infected.”

2/8 “And I think if we look at our more recent cases, the role of airborne or aerosolised transmission has been much more likely to have been the cause.”

3/8 “And I think if we then retrospectively go back knowing what we know now, it was probably more likely the person who we initially thought it was through fomite transmission on the rubbish bin lid, it was aerosolised particles in the corridor.”

4/8 “And I dare say that, a lot of the actions that have been undertaken over the last month or two, have been explicitly designed to reduce the likelihood of people being infected through aerosolised transmission...”

5/8 “...particularly by reducing movement of people outside of their rooms at the same time.”

NZ Minister for COVID Response Chris Hipkins:

6/8 “It’s interesting as someone who follows the international developments around this very closely, we’re one of the only places in the world that’s having this conversation about fomite transmission or aerosol transmission.”

7/8 “Because in most other places it’s still person to person transmission and it’s still hundreds if not thousands of cases that you’re dealing with every day, through that person to person contact.”

8/8 “Because we don’t have community transmission in NZ we’re quite unique and as Dr. Bloomfield has pointed out, each new case we get actually helps us to understand a little bit more about the previous cases that we have dealt with.”

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