Two years after the pandemic started it's clear that early confusion around how COVID-19 was transmitted was disastrous for our response, write linseymarr and Jose-Luis Jimenez (jljcolorado)
to explain how COVID-19 spreads between people, although the organization’s social media posts continue to completely avoid the word. The word remains verboten for C.D.C.
We are accustomed to talking freely about diseases that are waterborne, foodborne, bloodborne, or vector-borne. If even President Trump knew in February 2020, “,” why wasn’t the public told clearly the virus was airborne? According to conventional wisdom in the medical community, colds and flus were spread mainly by large droplets, and there was a very high bar to prove a disease was airborne. Historically, airborne transmission has been associated with long distances, beyond a range of 6 feet.
The field of medicine should not have a monopoly on the word airborne. One way to reduce the chance for confusing communication in the future is to change the designation of different categories of precautions for infection prevention and control in hospitals. Rather than affixing specific words to the current categories—contact, droplet, and airborne—hospitals could assign numerical levels for different sets of precautions, such as those used for biosafety procedures in laboratories.
From the outside, it is easy for us to see that a traditional, medical-centric approach has contributed to a sclerotic response to the airborne spread of Covid-19. We realize this sounds self-serving, but, and certainly for combating an airborne virus. We, the two authors, know almost nothing about what happens to a virus when it’s inside your body nor how to treat it, but we do know how a virus behaves in the environment—whether indoors or outdoors—and how to remove it.
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