For the last few years, @WHO and @CERN have been developing a risk assessment tool to estimate indoor airborne transmission of #SARSCoV2 to better advise on risk mitigation measures for #COVID19.🧵 home.cern/news/news/know…
Note: The risk assessment tool itself has been online for more than a year, helping our member states and partners reduce the risks of airborne transmission indoors. partnersplatform.who.int/aria
@mvankerkhove @WHO @CERN Why did it take "a few years"? It could have been done by summer 2020 if the #WHO would have acknowledged SARS-CoV-2 being airborne right at the beginning.
It is great that you at WHO finally cooperate with physicists (since transmission is physics and most healthcare personnel don't know or get educated in that unfortunately) but you know you could also include already done research by Makoto Tsubokura at Riken R-CCS on Fugaku (Japans and one of the worlds fastest supercomputers) that was done on the topic already in 2020. r-ccs.riken.jp/en/fugaku/rese… And also of course @kprather88 and @linseymarr. This after all not quantum particle physics. (We did analyze CERN ATLAS data in college back in the day, e- vs e+ collisions to detect cascades, it was great fun.)
@mvankerkhove @WHO @CERN Superspreaders and superspreading events suggest the airborne transmission of COVID-19 since the beginning. There were two large recorded superspreading events in Thailand at the very beginning of the pandemic. nature.com/articles/s4159…
@mvankerkhove @WHO @CERN It's time for the @WHO @opsoms to formally retract this tweet (2020) #CovidIsAirborne Retract it 👇🏻
Dear Maria @mvankerkhove The aerosol scientists that you have been ignoring for 5 years, made this free tool available to the citizens of the world years ago. covidairbornerisk.com They also taught the world how to make at home co2 meters and Corsi- Rosenthal Boxes. They’re miles ahead from you and you know it. You should count on them from now on. #CovidIsAirborne #IAQ @covidisairborne 👇🏻
Dear Maria @mvankerkhove The aerosol scientists that you have been ignoring for 5 years, made this free tool available to the citizens of the world years ago. covidairbornerisk.com They also taught the world how to make at home co2 meters and Corsi- Rosenthal Boxes. They’re miles ahead from you and you know it. You should count on them from now on. #CovidIsAirborne #IAQ @covidisairborne 👇🏻
@mvankerkhove @WHO @CERN It's a start. Please start recommending the tools which actually work: respirator masks. x.com/nerodenc/statu…
@mvankerkhove @WHO @CERN It's a start. Please start recommending the tools which actually work: respirator masks. x.com/nerodenc/statu…