“Just so people reading this know:

When you have covid, you exhale covid particles into the air. Even with just ordinary breathing.

Those particles can then float on the air for hours.”

“How is COVID-19 spread? When people cough, sneeze or talk, viral particles can be sent through the air and via droplets. Masking helps to prevent droplet spread, and keeping more than two metres apart and staying in a well-ventilated area can help to limit aerosol spread.

While not a predominant cause of transmission, COVID-19 can also be spread through objects contaminated with secretions from an infected person. The incubation period for COVID-19 — the time from exposure to developing an infection — is about two to four days with the current variant.”

MASSIVE public health failure, and huge misinformation and propaganda win for both political parties.

“Half of Americans (49%) believe they'll never get COVID again, according to new polling from the Ipsos Consumer Tracker”

“I'm on day 15 COVID + and I NEVER had a fever. Nor did my partner.

@CDC COVID guidelines aren't prevention guides, they're ‘how to stay in a pandemic’ playbook.”

How do we safely turn indoor air itself into a disinfectant?

This study is the first responsible step forward to answering that question:

Oops! Looks like Covid IS airborne, folks.

“All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences…”

COVID patients breathe large amounts of virus early on

COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

Study: How SARS-CoV-2 is adapting to better infect people. This study found that the newer Omicron subvariants can replicate better in human cells compared to earlier Omicron strains.

"SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants progressively adapt to human cells with altered host cell entry"

COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the CNS

New viral variants created in the brain & other parts of the nervous system could also travel back to the lungs, where they could become transmissible. That could spread new, dangerous variants of the virus.

N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows

Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective

“The researchers also found that—in what might come as a surprise to many—cloth masks outperformed the specific brand of KN95 mask that was tested. Surgical masks brought up the rear in performance out of the four types, but even they blocked 70% of the virus, the tests showed. (To reflect the general public's use of masks, study volunteers were not fit-tested for their masks or trained how to properly wear them.)

‘The research shows that any mask is much better than no mask, and an N95 is significantly better than the other options. That’s the No. 1 message,’ says the study’s senior author, Donald Milton, a professor of environmental health and a global expert on how viruses spread through the air.”