Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
by bregma on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:12AM
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> Laboratory tests find that improvised cloth masks block 60 – 80% of virus particles
How many virus particles do you need to become infected? Is 20% of the load in a typical aerosol droplet from an asymptomatic infected person above or below that critical number?
Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
by wetpaws on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:09PM
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
>higher viral loads associated with severe clinical outcomes
Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
by sudosysgen on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:33PM
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It's a numbers game. There is a certain probability that each virion can spur and infection, so the less you get the better. If virions had a 100% infection chance then sure, but it's much lower than that.
This is a common misconception, for which CDC is also partially the one to be blamed.
Laboratory tests find that improvised cloth masks block 60 – 80% of virus particles
Most experts in the early 2000s agreed that these masks were probably better than nothing.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/5/4/e006577.full.pdf
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
http://akkie.mods.jp/2019-nCoV/images/c/c0/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B...