{"id":73893,"date":"2020-04-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73893"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:09:05","slug":"transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73893","title":{"rendered":"Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the assumption that&#8217;s driven a lot of the models regarding the spread of Covid so far has involved the idea that transmission might be &#8220;Aerosol&#8221; &#8211; that the virus might hang suspended in the air for a period of time, until it latches onto a passing human, who might inadvertently ingest it into vulnerable tissue via the nose or mouth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what if it&#8217;s transmitted most readily by something less persistent, and more predicatable?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing study, supporting droplet (rather than aerosol) as key means of transmission. One asymptomatic person infected 10 (out of 91) at restaurant\u2014but *only* if they were in direct line of air pushed by the A\/C. (Aerosol would have infected others, too). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j8VXjnWtlN\">https:\/\/t.co\/j8VXjnWtlN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w8yNENCT6M\">pic.twitter.com\/w8yNENCT6M<\/a><\/p>&mdash; zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zeynep\/status\/1251556084424347649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note to &#8220;Progressive&#8221; readers<\/strong>    Those are actual scientists.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hunch &#8211; since this theory impugns population density and the &#8220;Blue&#8221; urban lifestyle to which so much of our chattering class subscribes, it&#8217;ll be downplayed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the assumption that&#8217;s driven a lot of the models regarding the spread of Covid so far has involved the idea that transmission might be &#8220;Aerosol&#8221; &#8211; that the virus might hang suspended in the air for a period of time, until it latches onto a passing human, who might inadvertently ingest it into vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73896,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73893\/revisions\/73896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}