No dry spread, that is one certainty.
I was aware of the piglet/monkey transmission study which provides the basis of the airborne transmission theory. I was not aware of the isolation ward/fomite study. My initial feeling after reading about the fomite study is that it also supports the airborne transmission theory. the nurses in Texas were in the isolation room while the toxic patient was, apparently, experiencing profuse diarrhea and vomiting which are both mechanisms of aerosolization. The nurses were not 100% barrier protected from the atmosphere but they were surely well protected from the physical environment which, according to the fomite study, posed little risk at all let alone to two trained RNs wearing gloves, gown, boots. etc. How did the virus then reach them? It was aerosolized and, therefore, able to move from point A to point B through the air.