By Michael Doyle
New medical article outlines 10 streams of evidence that supports airborne transmission
A new article from The Lancet medical journal outlines 10 streams of evidence that support the hypothesis that COVID-19 is transmitted primarily though the airborne route.
Some of those reasons include:
that COVID has been found to spread between people who have been in adjacent hotel rooms, such as hotel quarantine;
that between a third and possibly as high as 59% of coronavirus is transmitted by asymptomatic people
that the transmission of the virus is much higher indoors than outdoors.
The Lancet article also states that COVID has been found in air filters and building ducts in hospitals with COVID-19 patients.
New South Wales Health is investigating possible COVID-19 transmission within a quarantine hotel
Seven returned travelers from overseas have tested positive with the same viral sequence, suggesting possible transmission of coronavirus within the hotel.
The cases are from two different family groups and arrived from different countries on different days but stayed in adjacent rooms on the 12th floor of the Adina Apartments Hotel in Sydney s CBD.
The health department said it is investigating further and staff who worked on the same floor during the infectious period, believed to be between the 8th and 11th of April, are self-isolating.
Security staff who worked on the 12th floor during that period have had at least one vaccination.