MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet

Re:MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at... by exabrial on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:20PM (#26918751)

Misleading headline, as usual from any Major US News source.

If you're inside a place with a breeze, it's literally impossible to contract it if you're upwind. It's even difficult to contract it downwind if the flow rate is high enough.

* https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/us/gym-ventilation-covid-trnd...

* https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/China-study-suggests-...

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Re:MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at... by spfzero on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:25PM (#26919923)

Just read the article and came to say the same thing. The researchers' point was that the restrictions on indoor capacity are not helping, and should be done away with. You're no safer at 60 feet, because your safety depends a lot more on other variables besides distance. The headline could just as well have stated: "you're just as safe at 6 feet as you would be at 60 feet".

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Re:MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at... by rednerrus on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:17PM (#26919310)

This is in line with what we've been seeing for the last 6 months.

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