COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Cityfan]

Physical smoke apart, what about walking down a corridor 5/10 meters behind a colleague that has just been out for a fag, and isn't exhaling smoke anymore but you can still smell their breath?

Smell is of individual molecules not droplets they can hang around in the air for ages.

 

[Cityfan]

Interesting that, cheers

I read an article today saying that even droplets from speech (obviouly in closer proximity than 2m) can carry, spread and infect.

Droplets from speech are probably important and will typically travel a bit further than ordinary breathing.

 

[whitenoise]

Smell is of individual molecules not droplets they can hang around in the air for ages.

Just going by this, I originally saw it on BBC news (can't find it now) but the daily fail story has the gist of it -

"
US scientists found high levels of the bug lurking in the air in rooms long after patients had left.

What's more is that traces of the coronavirus were also discovered in hospital corridors outside patients' rooms, where staff had been coming in and out."

Hopefully BBC pulled it as fake news and the Daily Fail is just being true to form. The original story was about it being found outside wards, not rooms (IIR)

 

[Cityfan]

Just going by this, I originally saw it on BBC news (can't find it now) but the daily fail story has the gist of it -

"
US scientists found high levels of the bug lurking in the air in rooms long after patients had left.

What's more is that traces of the coronavirus were also discovered in hospital corridors outside patients' rooms, where staff had been coming in and out."

Hopefully BBC pulled it as fake news and the Daily Fail is just being true to form. The original story was about it being found outside wards, not rooms (IIR)

In Wuhan they found traces of it all over the hospital.
The question is at what level have they found it sufficient to cause transmission and the indications are that it is generally by droplet spread over fairly short distances. Which is not to say that if you are sharing a room with someone and he coughs from the other side of the room transmission is impossible but it is less likely.
I wouldn't like to be sat three metres away from someone known to be excreting covid indoors with poor ventilation and no PPE for a prolonged length of time.

 

[Paul1970]

just had mine & the very thoughts went through my mind. I get results in 24-72 hours but I could catch it immediately after test!

The only benefit is I have a young family so it’s a peace of mind type scenario.

the antibody test is what needs rolling out ASAP in my opinion these current test do seem a waste of money and they are not accurate.

my parent had 3 neg test then 1 pos test in hospital during 7 days! Figure that out

Hope they were ok mate . It’s crazy world we live and it will never be the same again

 

[cleavers]

In the briefings they say 0.25%

The 0.25% figure isn't the number that have had it, its the number that actually had it from the survey of people over 7 days, so 0.25% were actually infected during the trial.

0.25% of the population is 165,000, and we know over 250,000 have tested positive already ~ 0.4%, and hundreds of thousands of others have had it without being tested.

 

[cleavers]

How did they get the picture of me working from home ?

 

[True_Blue69]

The 0.25% figure isn't the number that have had it, its the number that actually had it from the survey of people over 7 days, so 0.25% were actually infected during the trial.

0.25% of the population is 165,000, and we know over 250,000 have tested positive already ~ 0.4%, and hundreds of thousands of others have had it without being tested.

I think Karen needs to take her own advice and watch/read the full article and stop posting misleading information.

 

[kaz7]

I think Karen needs to take her own advice and watch/read the full article and stop posting misleading information.

Ha oh dear

 

[kaz7]

The 0.25% figure isn't the number that have had it, its the number that actually had it from the survey of people over 7 days, so 0.25% were actually infected during the trial.

0.25% of the population is 165,000, and we know over 250,000 have tested positive already ~ 0.4%, and hundreds of thousands of others have had it without being tested.

Thanks