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Originally Posted by nono1973
I remember reading in one of the news from Taiwan, a nurse was interviewing a coronavirus carrier over a 2+ meter table with mask on for about 20 mins in a enclosed room, few days later, the nurse was diagnosed with codvid-19.
In the above case, washing hands and wearing a mask not going to help as much, arent it?
That Covid-19 Virus is air borne aka 气溶胶传播 (what China calls it)
气溶胶 is translated to Aerosol
The "enemy" is in the air all around us.
Then again, one thing that still puzzles me all these time. Why are medical staffs wearing mask in the hospital then? I'm kind of sure they also wash their hands at the highest frequency too. I know, people will start giving answer/s like becos the premises has got virus/bacteria etc, people they dealt with could be infected etc etc.
But the very reason why medical staffs were wearing mask is enough to tell me wearing a mask is NOT completely useless. (just NOT necessary to wear it all the time and in all premises, resulting in wastage etc)
Since my enemy is in the "air",hehehe...and when it comes to dealing with "air", mask is one of the key important factor.
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2 m away may not be enuff for most enclosed area. There are news that Coronavirus were found in air samples up to 13 feet from patients.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/coronaviru...231032740.html
WHO has changed its words recently, citing that
wearing mask alone is not enuff to keep a person from getting infected by the Coronavirus.
For once, they're right on this issue. But it didn't need them to say that as by now, almost everyone already knew.
No human to human transmission on Coronavirus as cited by WHO during mid Jan 2020.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/who-ha...f-coronavirus/
The direction on this pandemic was not rite til later March 2020, so as their earlier given advise.
That's when the new word 气溶胶传播 was invented (by China).