{"id":28642,"date":"2020-05-07T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2020-05-07T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:26:09","slug":"its-not-quite-like-watching-sausage-being-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/05\/07\/its-not-quite-like-watching-sausage-being-made\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Quite Like Watching Sausage Being Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Bromage <a href=\"https:\/\/erinbromage.wixsite.com\/covid19\/post\/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discusses<\/a> in great deal how the virus behind Covid-19 moves from person to person:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"XzvDs _208Ie tFDi5 blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _6RI6N tFDi5\">In order to get infected you need to get exposed to an infectious dose of the virus; the estimate is that you need about ~1000 SARS-CoV2<a class=\"_2qJYG blog-link-hashtag-color _3Sq3W\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.org\/expert-reaction-to-questions-about-covid-19-and-viral-load\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u class=\"sDZYg\"> viral particles<\/u><\/a> for an infection to take hold, but this still needs to be determined experimentally. That could be 1000 viral particles you receive in one breath or from one eye-rub, or 100 viral particles inhaled with each breath over 10 breaths, or 10 viral particles with 100 breaths. Each of these situations can lead to an infection.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"_3f-vr _208Ie blog-post-title-font _19AEJ _6Xxhi _2QAo- _25MYV _6RI6N tFDi5\"><strong>How much Virus is released into the environment?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"XzvDs _208Ie tFDi5 blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _6RI6N tFDi5\"><a class=\"_2qJYG blog-link-hashtag-color _3Sq3W\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2271-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u class=\"sDZYg\">A Toilet flush<\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong>Without a seat to close, a single flush releases ~8000 droplets into the air. If the person using the restroom before you was infected, you have a chance of contracting the virus via breathing the air in the bathroom. While the paper in question did not look for live virus, it is clear that infected people are releasing, at a minimum, viral RNA, in bowel movements. Don\u2019t use public bathrooms or wait a few minutes before entering so gravity can bring the droplets to the floor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more, well-written and comprehensible to those of us lacking degrees in the subject, like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Bromage discusses in great deal how the virus behind Covid-19 moves from person to person: In order to get infected you need to get exposed to an infectious dose of the virus; the estimate is that you need about ~1000 SARS-CoV2 viral particles for an infection to take hold, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/05\/07\/its-not-quite-like-watching-sausage-being-made\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28643,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions\/28643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}