U of C researcher says COVID airborne risk was dismissed in error
1 Sep 18 6:23 PM · 5d ago · 1 article · 3 posts · 2 sources · development 1 of 1
CTV News reports on a University of Calgary researcher's assessment that infection-control leaders relied on outdated understandings of aerosol transmission, wrongly assuming COVID could not spread through the air, a mistake the researcher says was already foreseeable from a 2006 SARS Commission report.
“infection control leaders based their decisions on some outdated understandings of… disease transmission via aerosols; as a result, they assumed that it was not possible for Covid to be airborne. And this, obviously, now we can see turned out to be a mistake,”
U of C researcherUniversity of Calgary researcher Author of the assessment on COVID infection-control policy
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1 outlet ‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
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"‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding COVID still pose a danger today." Scientists and experts warned that COVID could spread through airborne aerosols, but infection-control leaders relied on outdated ideas about aerosol transmission. The assumption that COVID couldn’t be airborne proved to be a mistake, based on thinking already described as…
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“infection control leaders based their decisions on some outdated understandings of… disease transmission via aerosols; as a result, they assumed that it was not possible for Covid to be airborne. And this, obviously, now we can see turned out to be a mistake,” https://www. ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/out…
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Article vs graph. Past-tensing the ongoing problem doesn’t help. https://www. ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/out dated-health-policies-surrounding-covid-still-pose-a-danger-today-says-u-of-c-researcher/
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