{"id":7501,"date":"2020-06-12T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:37:25","slug":"identifying-airborne-transmission-as-the-dominant-route-for-the-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/identifying-airborne-transmission-as-the-dominant-route-for-the-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Airborne Transmission as the Dominant Route for the Spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zhang et al. analyzed COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">linear\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">trends\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Wuhan (China), Italy, and the US<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in relation to the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">implementation of non-phar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">maceutical interventions<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors interpret\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">their\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">findings as evidence that transmission\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is predominantly airborne (aerosol)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and that s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ocial\u00a0distancing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0will not<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prevent airborne transmission without face coverings.\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[EDITORIAL NOTE: These results should be interpreted with caution.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ecological comparisons and temporal analyses, particularly in the context of dynamic epidemics without comparable control conditions, are limited in their evidence for or against causal effects of population-level interventions.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Zhang et al. 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Identifying Airborne Transmission as the Dominant Route for the Spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">PNAS.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2009637117\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2009637117<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang et al. analyzed COVID-19\u00a0linear\u00a0trends\u00a0in the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities\u00a0in Wuhan (China), Italy, and the US\u00a0in relation to the\u00a0implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions.\u00a0The authors interpret\u00a0their\u00a0findings as evidence that transmission\u00a0of SARS-CoV-2\u00a0is predominantly airborne (aerosol)\u00a0and that social\u00a0distancing\u00a0will not\u00a0prevent airborne transmission without face coverings.\u00a0[EDITORIAL NOTE: These results should be interpreted with caution.\u00a0Ecological comparisons and temporal analyses, particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/identifying-airborne-transmission-as-the-dominant-route-for-the-spread-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}