Red Mosquito

The reason the measles is so, well, viral, is that the microbe is so small and hardy that it is able to stay suspended in the air where an infected person coughed or sneezed for up to two hours, making it one of the only viruses that can exist as a true aerosol.

Now there are conflicting reports on whether the new coronavirus can. The studies suggesting that it can be aerosolized are only preliminary, and other research contradicts it, finding no aerosolized coronavirus particles in the hospital rooms of Covid-19 patients.

The weight of the evidence suggests that the new coronavirus can exist as an aerosol — a physics term meaning a liquid or solid (the virus) suspended in a gas (like air) — only under very limited conditions, and that this transmission route is not driving the pandemic. But “limited” conditions does not mean “no” conditions, underlining the need for health care workers to have high levels of personal protection, especially when doing procedures such as intubation that have the greatest chance of creating coronavirus aerosols. “I think the answer will be, aerosolization occurs rarely but not never,” said microbiologist and physician Stanley Perlman of the University of Iowa. “You have to distinguish between what’s possible and what’s actually happening.”

Peeps wrote:i realize its not a dust cloud traveling around but if youre in an area that has many cases chances are its in the air

but how long does it stay in the air

btw, im literally asking because i havent seen anything other than it can survive on metals and plastics for up to 4 hours

Machamer: What's getting a lot of press and is presented out of context is that the virus can last on plastic for 72 hours—which sounds really scary. But what's more important is the amount of the virus that remains. It's less than 0.1% of the starting virus material. Infection is theoretically possible but unlikely at the levels remaining after a few days. People need to know this.

While the New England Journal of Medicine study found that the COVID virus can be detected in the air for 3 hours, in nature, respiratory droplets sink to the ground faster than the aerosols produced in this study. The experimental aerosols used in labs are smaller than what comes out of a cough or sneeze, so they remain in the air at face-level longer than heavier particles would in nature

Bi_3 wrote:

bada wrote:No its like Peeps said it's a roving cloud that looks for any poorly insulated section of your home and seeps in to kill you.

B wrote:I can't find the picture, but every morning on the Today Show when they talk about wearing a mask, they put a picture in the mix of this couple walking and the guy has the mask up on his forehead so that he can smoke. It's my favorite god damned picture ever. He's just such an idiot!

bune wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

bada wrote:No its like Peeps said it's a roving cloud that looks for any poorly insulated section of your home and seeps in to kill you.

was that a random picture find or specific? because specifically I know what that is but it's pretty random usage.

Bi_3 wrote:

bune wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

bada wrote:No its like Peeps said it's a roving cloud that looks for any poorly insulated section of your home and seeps in to kill you.

was that a random picture find or specific? because specifically I know what that is but it's pretty random usage.

Random? Is anything random? I'll ask my friend Carlos, he's a scientist. But first... the weather