Down the Rabbit Hole with Roberta
If it is highly contagious and you don’t know who has it, and you don’t know if you have it, how do you control it? Traditional infection-control and public health strategies rely heavily on early detection of disease to contain spread. New CDC reports say roughly one in three of those with the coronavirus show zero symptoms and 40% of all coronavirus transmissions happens from people who show no symptoms. A cough can travel 12 feet and droplets can linger in the air for as long as 3 minutes and a sneeze can travel 23 to 27 feet. That seems like a good enough case for wearing a mask.
My rabbit hole this week found me digging into Asymptomatic people and their transmission of COVID-19. But I would be amiss if I did not note the biggest news of this week, deaths top 100,000 Americans and 350,000 globally. Celebrating Memorial Day this week took on many meanings.
US #coronavirus deaths top 100,000 https://t.co/W1ek5XiotP via @nbcnews
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 27, 2020
Why the Public Should Wear Masks
Why Public Should Wear Masks #COVID-19 A cough can travel 12 ft and droplets can linger in the air for as long as 3 mins A sneeze can travel 23 to 27 ft @ICT_magazine https://t.co/pkdzWyu8XO
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 27, 2020
Asymptomatic Carriers and Transmission
Evidence Supporting Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 While Presymptomatic or Asymptomatic https://t.co/BdLtC8h53b pic.twitter.com/gzOuU3m1K1
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 25, 2020
This is who’s transmitting 40 percent of coronavirus cases, CDC says https://t.co/qBmakBThcA
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 25, 2020
Could You Be an Asymptomatic #COVID-19 Carrier? Here’s What You Need to Know https://t.co/4quq4a5wTG
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 26, 2020
Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles’ Heel of Current Strategies to Control #Covid-19 https://t.co/ecEwkBRooA
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 26, 2020
CDC new guidence estimates that 35% of #coronavirus patients don’t have symptoms https://t.co/VwhjM88dVl
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 27, 2020
What We Know About The Silent Spreaders of #COVID-19 @NPRhealth https://t.co/rIH77lnUfq
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 28, 2020
The Incubation Period of #Coronavirus Disease 2019 From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application @AnnalsofIM https://t.co/R2LVKymkW5
— Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) May 28, 2020
