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As more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine make their way into arms across the country, another vaccine is in the homestretch of the approval process. Health Canada says it will “soon” be ready to announce if it can authorize the Moderna vaccines, having received final documents from the American biotech firm on the weekend.
re: Possible Aerosol Transmission of COVID-19 Associated with an Outbreak in an Apartment in Seoul…
“Thus, we infer that the first infected person probably released the virus during a shower in the bathroom by coughing, breathing, singing, or flushing…”
Sounds like toilet plums are the biggest threat but they are downplaying that scenario. My practice is to stay away from highway rest stops and campgrounds with flush toilets.
chris
Sanitary vent stacks with dried out traps were a source of SARS transmission in high rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong in 2003. We know that coronavirus can get into the gut and that you’re actually able to transmit viral particles with an infectious potentialfor longer through the gut than through your breathing. That’s why a big change that needs to be made in many of the public spaces in our country is the addition of toilet seat lids. It’s also a problem that comes from the recent phenomenon of ghost owners. Traps dry out due to
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By Andrew Harding
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As South Africa confronts a second wave of Covid-19 infections, scientists say new evidence indicates that at least a quarter of the country s population - and possibly more than a third - may already have been infected by the virus during its first wave, which peaked in July.
South Africa s unusually high infection rate - potentially far higher than in some European nations after their first waves - appears to have been accompanied by an uncommonly low death rate, with early data from one province suggesting that the Covid-19 mortality rate was less than half that experienced in the worst-hit countries.
Race to understand how many South Africans have had Covid
As South Africa confronts a second wave of Covid-19 infections, scientists say new evidence indicates that at least a quarter of the country s population - and possibly more than a third - may already have been infected by the virus during its first wave, which peaked in July.
South Africa s unusually high infection rate - potentially far higher than in some European nations after their first waves - appears to have been accompanied by an uncommonly low death rate, with early data from one province suggesting that the Covid-19 mortality rate was less than half that experienced in the worst-hit countries.