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>It's not like there has been a shortage of covid related research in the last ~2 years. And yet there has been. Where is the definitive research on aerosols?
by rapjr9 5y ago
>It's not like there has been a shortage of covid related research in the last ~2 years.
And yet there has been. Where is the definitive research on aerosols? What is long covid? Why do vaccinated people get long covid? Why does COVID-19 arrive in fairly regular waves? Is Zinc helpful if you catch COVID-19? How does superspreading happen? It seems like a lot of research was abandoned when the pandemic seemed to be ending after the vaccine distribution started which turned out to be the exactly wrong thing to do when Delta showed up.
- pwr-electronics 5y ago> Where is the definitive research on aerosols? https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/air/publications https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/air/publications This example was pretty easy to find.
- rapjr9 5y agoAnd if you read those papers and articles you'll find there are still a lot of open questions, for example a couple of quotes from the first paper: For viral infections generally, little is known about the dose-response relationship between the inhaled number of virions and infection risk and the relationship between the site of deposition within the respiratory tract and the clinical phenotype and severity of illness. The gaps in addressing the 4 critical questions highlight the necessity of an organized interdisciplinary research agenda. The pandemic quickly launched such research, resulting in the new but still incomplete findings presented at the NASEM workshop. These findings document the critical role of aerosols in transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Further studies are needed to refine understanding of the relative contributions of the modes of transmission in distinct settings. Strong and immediate precautionary actions should be taken based on the demonstrated significance of this transmission mode, particularly as the pandemic surges. Strategies need to be developed that assure sufficient ventilation and that add air cleaning and perhaps ultraviolet light in appropriate settings. end quotes Prior to this research scientists spent a long time arguing over what an aerosol was and found there were conflicting definitions. They've studied influenza and colds for a century and until now they didn't know it was spread by aerosols? And they still don't know exactly what the risk of infection by aerosols is.
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- pwr-electronics 5y agoThere are still two years' worth of research that definitively answers some important questions, which covers the scope of the previous comments, as written.