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isn't more deadly, but it does have higher loads of virus, which implies it is more contagious
the virus could have evolved to resist common efforts at dodging the virus, such as washing hands or wearing masks
The paper, which has not been peer-reviewed . . .
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originally posted by: Metallicus
originally posted by: Hecate666
I read something by an unknown internet user that struck me as relevant. It's certainly not a quote as I only remember the gist:
If the masks work, why do we have to keep 2 meters apart?
If being 2 meters apart works, why do we need a mask?
If both work, why do we need a lockdown?
If none of them work, why implement these measures at all?
If the lockdown works, why do we need a vaccine?
I absolutely hate the masks and the COVID19 hysteria, however, suggesting all of the approaches above is called ‘layering’ which means no one thing is going to protect you 100%. The goal is to do multiple things to reduce the risk of the virus.
The virologist, who works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said the virus has become more transmissible which may have implications as to how we can control it. He added: “Although we don’t know yet, it is well within the realm of possibility that this coronavirus, when our population-level immunity gets high enough, this coronavirus will find a way to get around our immunity. “If that happened, we’d be in the same situation as with flu. We’ll have to chase the virus and, as it mutates, we’ll have to tinker with our vaccine.”
The study also found that one of the mutations D614G is the most dominant in the US and is behind 99.9 per cent of cases in the Houston area in Texas.
Scientists say more contagious strain of the virus is adapting to get around social distancing measures
originally posted by: 1947boomer
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Kenzo
Psst, it's a virus. It doesn't need to "evolve" to get around masks. They never did any good to begin with.
Here’s an article from the prestigious journal “Nature” from April, 2020 titled “Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks“
www.nature.com...
In this experiment, they measured the amount of virus detected in breath samples from virus infected people before wearing masks and after wearing masks. They found that surgical masks reduced the count of Corona virus-laden droplets and aerosols by somewhere between 75 to 80%.
Keep denying your ignorance.
The major limitation of our study was the large proportion of participants with undetectable viral shedding in exhaled breath for each of the viruses studied. We could have increased the sampling duration beyond 30 min to increase the viral shedding being captured, at the cost of acceptability in some participants. An alternative approach would be to invite participants to perform forced coughs during exhaled breath collection12. However, it was the aim of our present study to focus on recovering respiratory virus in exhaled breath in a real-life situation and we expected that some individuals during an acute respiratory illness would not cough much or at all. Indeed, we identified virus RNA in a small number of participants who did not cough at all during the 30-min exhaled breath collection, which would suggest droplet and aerosol routes of transmission are possible from individuals with no obvious signs or symptoms. Another limitation is that we did not confirm the infectivity of coronavirus or rhinovirus detected in exhaled breath. While the G-II was designed to preserve viability of viruses in aerosols, and in the present study we were able to identify infectious influenza virus in aerosols, we did not attempt to culture coronavirus or rhinovirus from the corresponding aerosol samples.
Before exhaled breath collection, each participant was randomly allocated in a 1:1 ratio to either wearing a surgical face mask (cat. no. 62356, Kimberly-Clark) or not during the collection. To mimic the real-life situation, under observation by the study staff, participants were asked to attach the surgical mask themselves, but instruction on how to wear the mask properly was given when the participant wore the mask incorrectly. Participants were instructed to breathe as normal during the collection, but (natural) coughing was allowed and the number of coughs was recorded by study staff. Participants were then invited to provide a second exhaled breath sample of the alternate type (for example if the participant was first assigned to wearing a mask they would then provide a second sample without a mask), but most participants did not agree to stay for a second measurement because of time constraints. Participants were compensated for each 30-min exhaled breath collection with a supermarket coupon worth approximately US$30 and all participants were gifted a tympanic thermometer worth approximately US$20.
Competing interests
B.J.C. consults for Roche and Sanofi Pasteur.
Who robbed you? "they guy in the mask".
originally posted by: Hecate666
I read something by an unknown internet user that struck me as relevant. It's certainly not a quote as I only remember the gist:
If the masks work, why do we have to keep 2 meters apart?
If being 2 meters apart works, why do we need a mask?
If both work, why do we need a lockdown?
If none of them work, why implement these measures at all?
If the lockdown works, why do we need a vaccine?