Airborne transmission ‘almost certainly’ behind hotel outbreak

Melbourne-based infectious diseases physician Michelle Ananda-Rajah, one of the signatories to the letter, told the Courier-Mail airborne transmission “is almost certainly behind this”.“Aerosols can linger suspended in poorly ventilated areas for prolonged periods – that’s how these large indoor clusters are occurring,” she said.“Our national and state guidelines downplay the importance of aerosol (aka airborne) transmission preferring to stick to droplets and surface contamination as…



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