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Yikes this is horrifying. I'm currently quarantining a family member in my guest room, whom I don't know if they have a common cold or not. I'm wondering if ju
by 3D22611099 7y ago
Yikes this is horrifying.
I'm currently quarantining a family member in my guest room, whom I don't know if they have a common cold or not. I'm wondering if just letting my ozone machine (5,000mg/hr) run after they're done in shared rooms, such as the bathroom etc. — unoccupied of course— would be enough to keep things sanitized.
This is all incredibly stressing.
- empath75 7y agoRealistically, everyone in the house with an infected person is going to catch it. You’re breathing the same air if nothing else.
- aksss 7y agoDidn't some study recently say that in China a key practice for containment was removing infected family members from households and placing them in quarantine? I'm a little skeptical of self-isolating in a home with other people. You're all in it together at that point. I'm not sure "everyone in the house will catch it", but probably everyone will be exposed.
- freeqaz 7y agoCOVID-19 CDC guidelines recommend droplet precautions[0], which means that the disease doesn't spread via the air. It spreads via droplets when you cough/sneeze. It's still bad, but it does mean that sharing air isn't a hazard by default. If it was airborne, they would recommend different precautions[1]. [0]: https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/prevention_control/en/ https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/preve... [1]: http://www.wikidifference.com/difference-between-airborne-and-droplet-precautions/ http://www.wikidifference.com/difference-between-airborne-an...
- alexanderchr 7y agoSurprisingly not. This virus is acting really strange. > The household secondary attack rate was 15% https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v...
- IAmGraydon 7y agoThat’s a perfectly normal secondary attack rate, in line with both flu and H1N1. Why do you say that it’s acting strange?
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- chillwaves 7y agoYou could set up some fans to exhaust from the room and create negative air pressure.
- Leary 7y agoIf fever+cough, be very careful. If runny nose, then more likely to be common cold. One way to disinfect is put disinfectant/alcohol in a spray bottle and spray places where the virus is likely to be. Another way is to put a simple mask on the sick person.
- gdubs 7y agoIt depends. If it’s a child, runny nose can be a symptom: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/children-faq.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fspecific-groups%2Fchildren-faq.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/children-f...
- dillonmckay 7y agoDo you have a ducted A/C system?
- 3D22611099 7y agoI do not, no A/C, just a central gas heater in the living room. We're both in our early 30s and decided that staying with me was less risky than possibly infecting older family members in the other household. I feel fine so far, and the other person feels like they have a cold. Runny nose, mild cough due to throat irritation, no apparent fever.