Posts Tagged ‘droplet’
Droplet & aerosol precautions are dead: long live ‘respiratory precautions’!
Our Clinical team discuss how the traditional distinction between “droplet” and “aerosol” transmission-based precautions, no longer seem relevant and how we should consider moving towards a combined set of “respiratory” precautions. One of the most absorbing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, from a technical point of view, has been the developing understanding of the transmission dynamics of…
Read MoreCOVID-19 transmission: droplet, contact, or aerosol?
There has been lots of recent controversy about the transmission route(s) of COVID-19. Some argue that, like influenza, droplet transmission is the most important route. Others that contact transmission is most important. And others still that aerosol transmission is the key – and that this has been underplayed, so fuelling the pandemic. There is undoubtedly…
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