Thread by @CPita3

For the past 20 months, experts in Aerosol transmission of respiratory viruses have been conducting studies that prove #COVIDisAirborne. These experts have called for Airborne mitigations (ventilation, filtration and respirators), but we have not heeded their calls. Why?

🧵1/13

The ID/PH Evidence-Based Medicine gatekeepers, driven by biased #DropletDogma groupthink, and sunk cost fallacy, smugly dismissed these studies. They threw rocks at the conclusions, and perpetually raised the bar of evidence to accept and mitigate Airborne Transmission.

2/13

The criticisms from these self-anointed gatekeepers were ripe with logical fallacies, and they never bothered to offer a plausible alternate explanation for the undeniable indoor superspreader events. Just baseless declarations that COVID is NOT Airborne.

3/13

See this excellent thread for the perspective and play-by-play from a prominent aerosol transmission expert, @drkristenkc

4/13

https://twitter.com/drkristenkc/status/1384778470891294721?s=19

These dispassionate, aloof gatekeepers (which include @WHO IPC officials), had raised the bar of evidence for Aerosol transmission so high, that even Measles and TB (accepted Airborne pathogens) fail to meet it. See thread here.

5/13

https://twitter.com/drkristenkc/status/1386999670946209793?s=19

Well, in the past *2 WEEKS* alone, 5 groundbreaking papers have been released, the totality of which leaps over the unreasonably high bar set to establish Airborne Transmission. Here's the summary. TLDR: #COVIDisAirborne

6/13

Let's go through the studies. First up, Coleman et al, released Aug 6, 2021.

Viral RNA was detected in respiratory aerosols. Fine aerosols (NOT DROPLETS) constituted 85% of the viral load detected in the study.

7/13

https://twitter.com/drkristenkc/status/1423801687513333762?s=19

Next, Hawks et al (Preprint released Aug 10, 2021) cultured infectious virus in aerosols emitted by Syrian Hamsters. The majority of virus was found in Aerosols <8um. Ie. VIABLE virus was cultured in RESPIRABLE Aerosols.

8/13

https://twitter.com/CPita3/status/1425466734291656707?s=19

https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1425493539396497415?s=19

Third... Adenaiye, Milton et al (preprint released Aug 13, 2021), detected viral RNA in aerosols emitted by humans, cultured VIABLE virus in fine Aerosols from 2 samples, and found SARS2 is evolving toward more efficient Airborne Transmission.

9/13

https://twitter.com/Don_Milton/status/1426238778847338498?s=19

Next up... Port et al (released Aug 17, 2021) successfully infected Syrian Hamsters via the Airborne route, and found that Airborne Transmission was both more efficient and led to more severe disease than Fomite Transmission.

10/13

nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Finally, Santarpia et al (Aug 18, 2021), detected viral RNA in all air samples from patients' rooms. They also successfully cultured VIABLE virus from 3 sub-micron aerosol samples, including observation of an intact SARS2 virion in 1 sample.

11/13

https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1428083732481822728?s=19

This evidence likely won't be sufficient for some, but know that the only higher level of evidence would be human experimentation involving intentional Airborne infection. This is dangerous given the implications of Port et al (Airborne leads to more severe disease).

12/13

The jig is up. Intransigent ID/PH experts, who have resisted Airborne transmission, need to "follow the science" and own up to their past failures. If their egos won't allow this, they are welcome to fade away into obscurity, just as long as they get out of the way.

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