Dr. Fauci says it's a way you do not realize that you can get Covid
It is not only the cough and sneezing you need to pay attention, according to the first immunologist of the nation.
Much of public health information in the COVID pandemic has focused onThe need to cover his face in cough or sneeze, which are the most obvious means that infectious droplets can be expelled from one person to another. However, this week, the main medical authority of the country,Anthony Fauci, MD, reminded us that there is a much more common risk risk that people tend to ignore:speaking. "People have an understandable but incorrect interpretation that theOnly the time you transmit an infection is when you touch and sneeze on someone, "he said during an interview with Youtube ChannelSLO-Mo guys. Read on to learn what you need to know aboutHow to speak spread Covid. And for more than where the numbers climb, check10 states on the overcuts of COVID.
Talking, even at a normal volume, spreads droplets.
Fuci warned that you must be vigilant to talk too close to people without mask, even thoughYou do not believe that one of you is infected. "If you speak, even if you do not speak hard, you have these particles coming out, which can stay in the air for a period of time," he explained. "Some of them fall to the Soil - That's why we say keep six feet away - but some of them are aerosolized and can suspend the air for a period of time. "
That's why, Fauci's advice were unequivocal: "For this reason, it's so important to wearFace coverings. In particular, when you think you are in a situation where no one squeezes or coughs to cough. No matter. "And if you want to know when to wear your EPP, checkThe CDC now says that you should wear your mask in these 7 places.
And sing without mask is even more dangerous.
Fuci said people also forget "sing, which is even worse than talking."
Early study published in disease control centers and prevention reviewWeekly Morbidity and Mortality Report(Mmwr) Discovered that a 3.5-hour choral practice with 61 participants, including a person with COVID, led to 32 cases of confirmed and probable high school. "Transmission has probably been facilitated by narrow proximity (within 6 feet) during practice andincreased by the act of singing, "They concluded, all putting a high alert about a melody. And for more advice on how the virus is transmitted, checkThe CDC now says that you can catch someone's cavid in exactly this long.
Nearly half of the infected people are asymptomatic.
"One of the reasons why it is so important to wear a face blanket is that we now know that about 40 to 45% of infected people do not have any symptoms," said Fauci. "And yet, they have a virus in their nasal pharynx. And we know that a substantial part of infections are transmitted from someone who has no symptoms." And for more information up to date,Sign up for our daily newsletter.
And symptomatic or not, the virus particles can stay in the air for hours.
In April, the medical literature warns that the virus could be transmitted bybreathing in aerosols of an infected person (particles or droplets liquid suspended in the air). "Evolution laboratory research shows that Covid-19 remains viable in aerosols up to 3 hours after postaerosolization, thus making a plausible aerosol transmission," wroteCassandra D. Benge, PharMD, inFederal government practitioner newspaper. And for more this achievement, checkThe CDC finally recognized that Covid spreads in the air.
