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"In any outbreak, the single most important question is: How does it spread?,” @j_g_allen writes. We got it wrong at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with hantavirus, we're getting it wrong again: theatln.tc/sT7M4SPA 📸: Andres Gutierrez / Anadolu / Getty





Below are further details about the Andes Virus superspreader events in Argentina (in 2018): ▪️ Transmission event: Birthday Party 5 guests infected Symptom onset 17-24 days later ▪️ Transmission event: Funeral/Wake 10 guests infected Symptom onset 14-40 days later

Bioaerosol scientist @brosseau_lisa:"This whole discussion about aerosols is something...infectious disease physicians…don't want to talk about...I think it frightens them." Why is this even accepted? Would we allow engineers to build bridges if they’re afraid of mathematics?



I slipped something in here that's so important and needs to be corrected going forward: --> "Every outbreak investigation involves careful clinical workups, painstaking epidemiology, re-created time-activity patterns, and genomic sequencing—but almost every time, without fail, the investigators ignore the actual space where the outbreak took place. Was the cruise ship’s ventilation system working? What filters did it have, and were they running?" It's not just the cruise ship. Anyone find any building info related to the birthday party outbreak? How about the subsequent funeral/wake where 10 people got infected? I read the Supplemental Info up and down - nuthin... Happened all through covid, too.


















