Posted on 04/15/2020 11:49:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A study in China has suggested that the deadly coronavirus may have spread among people at a restaurant due to its air conditioning.
The study was published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Researchers examined 10 coronavirus patients from three families who had visited the same restaurant in China’s Guangzhou for dinner.
One of the families had just travelled from Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus in China.
The three families dined at the restaurant while sitting at neighbouring tables on 24 January. Later that day, a person of the family that had come from Wuhan experienced fever and cough and went to hospital, the study said.
By 5 February, nine people had contracted novel coronavirus – all from families that had eaten at the restaurant.
The researchers found that the only source of exposure for all the infected people was the affected person of the Wuhan family.
Study authors suggested that the virus might have transmitted from the infected person to members of the other two families and later family transmission must have taken place.
Researchers attributed the outbreak of the disease to droplet transmission. However, they added that droplet transmission could not alone have had led to the outbreak as larger respiratory droplets remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances (less than 1 metre).
The distance between the infected person and members of the two families was greater than one meter.
The study added that virus-laden small aerosolized droplets can remain in the air and travel longer distances, which could have been facilitated due to the direction of the airflow.
The study authors concluded that in this outbreak, droplet transmission was prompted by air-conditioned ventilation.
Chinese legionnaires’ disease?
Maybe if you clean the filter every 20, 25 years...
You can’t believe anything the Chinese say.
Outboard motors also cause it.
Should you trust a Chinese study? This looks like a study to keep us from at least partially reopening some businesses.
yeah, not like someone came into contact with others or anything- just had to come from air conditioner- couldn’t possibly have coem from an infected server, or from the hostess or from another group that sat there previously or anything-
Don’t get me started on helicopters. Talk about spreading it widely!
The air conditioning was on in the middle of January?
probably all crammed into the same taxi van.
Let me see - coughs from the infected person did not put virus contaminated droplets on any surface (or the infected person’s hand(s) and from there to any surface) where they were picked up by wait staff and transfered to the tables or table settings of the other patrons? Right? The “study” controlled for those variables? I doubt it.
Who the hell knows with these Chinese fire drills. Sure, aerosol transmission blown around the room by the HVAC system is a possibility. It’s also possible that one sick person contaminated the rest room or coughed onto his hand and left his contaminated saliva all over the door handle of the restaurant.
Seed packets, too!
Let me see - coughs from the infected person did not put virus contaminated droplets on any surface (or the infected person’s hand(s) and from there to any surface) where they were picked up by wait staff and transfered to the tables or table settings of the other patrons? Right? The “study” controlled for those variables? I doubt it.
They made a careless assumption without eliminating any other possibilities.
Figures they would find a way to add the Green New Deal nonsense to all of this
Operative word in headline is “may”
>>>Outboard motors also cause it<<<
So far that’s only true in Michigan. Just ask their Governor.
Filter????
NY too and docks cause it as boat clubs can't even put their docks in.
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