SARS Cov2 Virus which Causes Covid-19 is Airborne

A report by The New York Times said that 239 scientists have wrote a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the USA demanding that they acknowledge that #SARSCOV2 virus is airborne.

The implications of this petition are huge. It means massive revision of plans on how to deal with the pandemic and a modification on standard protocol against the spread of the disease. Based on statistics, SARSCOV2 is finding victims worldwide, in such places as bars & restaurants, offices, markets & casinos, suggesting a fearsome observation that the virus lingers in the air indoors and infecting those nearby.

People should stay away from crowded spaces with poor ventilation. N95 masks and not just facemasks may be needed for indoors, even in physically distant settings.

For health care workers N95 masks or higher masks that can filter out the smallest respiratory droplets as they care for coronavirus patients must be made standard.

The ventilation systems of schools, nursing homes, residences and businesses may need to minimize recirculating air and install new filters that have anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties.

Those who initially laughed at President Donald Trump about using ultraviolet lights may have to apologize to him as it turned out that UV lights devices are needed to kill viral particles floating in tiny droplets indoors and this technology is both effective and quite impressively efficient based on a number of studies.

The latest update from WHO on Covid-19 pandemic released June 29 said that airborne transmission of the virus is possible only after medical procedures that produce aerosols, or droplets smaller than 5 microns. For this reason, WHO promotes the importance of handwashing as a primary prevention strategy, despite limited evidence for transmission of the virus from surfaces. The USA CDC has similar stand with WHO on this. This stand by the WHO has lead many to describe the international organization as out of step with science. Increasingly, scientists are convinced that whether carried aloft by large droplets that zoom through the air after a sneeze, or by much smaller exhaled droplets that may glide the length of a room, SARS COV2 coronavirus is borne through air and can infect people when inhaled.