Un detalle es que la carta de los 239 científicos se publicó en julio 2020, no en abril como dice el artículo. Tal vez se lo dije mal al hablar deprisa.
Tambien la 1a frase del articulo "Es prácticamente imposible que las miles de gotitas que emitimos al hablar infecten a las personas y los objetos que nos rodean." no es algo que diría yo. Porque no es imposible, simplemente es una forma seguramente poco importante de contagio.
Yo lo hubiera cambiado a: "Es mucho mas fácil que nos infecten los aerosoles invisibles que las gotitas visibles que emitimos al hablar." o algo así.
[Muchas publicaciones como esta no permiten leer las entrevistas antes de que se publiquen, aunque se lo pedí ]
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1/ The article "A room, a bar, and a class: how the coronavirus is spread through the air" in @elpaisinenglish has just won the Ortega y Gasset Prize, the most prestigious for the Spanish language press.
3/ The article that won the award was based on our shared-room air transmission estimator. It remains correct, although with the new variants transmission goes up some (the estimator allows taking this into account).
1/ El artículo de @el_pais "Un salón, un bar, y una clase: así contagia el coronavirus en el aire" acaba de ganar el Premio Ortega y Gasset, el más prestigioso del periodismo en español.
2/ Es un artículo extraordinario, y os recomiendo mucho leerlo si no lo habíais hecho. Sigue siendo correcto (aunque habría que aumentar un poco los contagios por las variantes).
1/ A great paper by @trishgreenhalgh explaining the debate over airborne transmission during the pandemic.
Although airborne transmission is the only important mode of transmission, it was ignored by @WHO and the Public Health establishment. This paper explains why & how.
2/ "Political and policy actors at international, national, and regional level aligned—predominantly though not invariably—with medical scientific orthodoxy which promoted the droplet theory of transmission and considered aerosol transmission unproven or of doubtful relevance."
3/ "This dominant scientific sub-field centred around the clinical discipline of infectious disease control, in which leading actors were hospital clinicians aligned with the evidence-based medicine movement."
2/ "There is great disparity in the way we think about and address different sources of environmental infection. Governments have for decades promulgated a large amount of legislation and invested heavily in food safety, sanitation, and drinking water for public health purposes"
3/ "By contrast, airborne pathogens and respiratory infections, whether seasonal influenza or COVID-19, are addressed fairly weakly, if at all, in terms of regulations, standards, and building design and operation, pertaining to the air we breathe."