You are more likely to get Covid through the air than in this way, the doctor says
This method of coronavirus infection is less likely to occur than the transmission of air.
The United States had only 14Confirmed coronavirus cases at the end of February. Now, just six months later, there is more than4.3 million cases confirmed. This increase in case the figures can be attributed toWhat way the virus spreads. As we have learned since Covid has appeared, it is possible to transmit multiple ways, with various risks involved. Experts now say that airborne transmission is one of the greatest forms of spread. In fact, you are more likely to get Covid in the air than from another commonly cited transmission source, affecting contaminated surfaces.
"Fomites are generated whenInfectious respiratory secretions are expelled and land on a hard surface "H. Cody Meissner, MD, the Tufts Medical Center in Boston, wrote in a column for AAP News. "The precise role of fomites in the transmission of SARS-COV-2 is unclear but seems to be less important than the transmission of aerosol."
According to Meissner, when these fomites aretransferred from the hard surface they live onLike a door handle or keyboard, they can cause a self-gloss, which is there that "contaminated secretions of these surfaces are transferred to the ocular mucosa, nasal or oral of a sensitive person". However, this is less likely to occur than airborne direct transmission.
Airborne transmission, on the other hand, is where an infected person expels secretions from their upper or lower respiratory tracts containing several particles of droplets. These particles propagated in various directions when the sick person engages in a generating aerosol activity, asTalking, coughing or sneezing.
"Respiratory droplets greater than five microns in diameter are recorded in the main mode of transmission of SARS-COV-2 and are unlikely to travel more than 3 to 6 feet", writes Meissner. "They are likely to settle rapidly due to gravitational traction within a radius of 6 feet of the index person."
This is why social distancing and face coatings have become suchImportant preventive measures By reducing the propagation of COVID-19. On the basis of what we now know about how the virus is most likely to infect you, Meissner explains that anyone who does not wear personal protective equipment and to be held at least six meters from a person infected is at high risk of infection.
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However, Meissner's is not the first to say that contaminated surfaces are a less likely transmission form. In May, disease control and prevention centers (CDC) released a report indicating that coronavirus propagation was mainly the result ofContact person to anyone, noting that "theThe virus does not spread easily to touch surfaces or objects. "And for more information on how the coronavirus spreads,There is now evidence these two things you have constantly expanded Covid.
