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U of C researcher: outdated COVID airborne-transmission policies still pose risk

A University of Calgary researcher says infection-control leaders wrongly ruled out airborne spread of COVID, and the same outdated thinking still endangers public health.

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What to know

  • A University of Calgary researcher says infection-control leaders wrongly assumed COVID could not spread via airborne aerosols, based on outdated transmission models.
  • The assumption is described as a mistake already flagged as illogical in Canada's 2006 SARS Commission report.
  • The researcher warns these outdated policies continue to pose risks to public health today.

University of Calgary researcher Author of the assessment on COVID infection-control policy

U of C researcher: outdated COVID airborne-transmission policies still pose risk
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    U of C researcher says COVID airborne risk was dismissed in error

    CTV News reports on a University of Calgary researcher's assessment that infection-control leaders relied on outdated understandings of aerosol transmission, wrongly assuming COVID could not spread through the air, a mistake the researcher says was already foreseeable from a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    “infection control leaders based their decisions on some outdated understandings of… disease transmission via aerosols; as a result, they assumed that it was not possible for Covid to be airborne.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 researcher
    1. 1 outlet ‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher

      first by CTV News, 5d ago

    • DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social

      "‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding COVID still pose a danger today."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and experts warned that COVID could spread through airborne aerosols, but infection-control leaders relied on outdated ideas about aerosol transmission.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…

      DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.socialMastodon5d ago25▲view on Mastodon ↗
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    • andrewhinton@jawns.club

      “infection control leaders based their decisions on some outdated understandings of… disease transmission via aerosols; as a result, they assumed that it was not possible for Covid to be airborne.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…

      andrewhinton@jawns.clubMastodon4d agoview on Mastodon ↗
    • thatkatharine@ohai.social

      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/

      thatkatharine@ohai.socialMastodon3d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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