Close prolonged contact is not necessary for transmission. It could be spread by inhalation. I don't know that it qualifies as airborne, but it can be transmitted by air.
We are going to be up the creek without a paddle, with RFKjr in charge of our health care, if this thing gets out in public.
"On the basis of evidence from five reconstructed person-to-person transmission events, the route of infection in secondary cases was possibly through inhalation of droplets or aerosolized virions "
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040

However, it is curious that a lot of online material is not recognizing this possibility as of yet.

It's the classic fog of uncertainty.

I remember all the washing of surfaces we were recommended to begin with.

Wiped down groceries for a longgggg time.

But it certainly is not the main route of covid's transmission.

But I can remember the absolute terror in this household making sure everything was wiped down to the nth degree.

I can also remember talking our street clothes off in our attached garage before entering the house proper after being in a public place.

Confusion reigned.

I am wondering at what point infected people are contagious. If they are contagious during that incubation period, they could spread it to several people before they know that they are infected. Imagine how many people an infected person could come in contact with over a period of 6 to 8 weeks, especially if they have a job working with the public or if they travel a lot.

But if they are only infectious after they have symptoms, that would reduce the number of people they could pass it to.

Because your link says

Who knows what they are hiding?

Or maybe eating roadkill.

Trump is in charge again.

Remember this?

Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment

What did President Trump say?

These guys are real risks.

And he said that when he had a few brain cells left.

Pretty frightening if another pandemic occurs with the idiot and the roadkill guy in charge.

Oh boy.

was airborne , but admitted it was to Bob Woodard … so DONT trust anything from these quacks


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about the spread of the Andes hanta virus.

According to this article, info from an outbreak in Chili indicates the window of transmission is one day, on the first day that a fever develops in an infected person. On that day, it is easily transmitted by just brief casual contact like walking past the infected person.

What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads | CNN https://share.google/3q1ch7Dz6YPBjvQJl

I'm in the same category as you describe. Not worried yet, but definitely starting to pay attention. Just seems eerily familiar from Trump's first term, and I feel the same angst building in my gut because he's in charge. I lost 13 people within my circle of friends and acquaintances to COVID, and I don't relish going through that again.

Awareness is a good thing.

That's an ungodly amount of people to lose.

I lost my brother, and two friends.

As well as several people who I was acquainted with.

For ALL of us. Please accept my sympathies to you for your losses, as well.

Would have thought perhaps that we (collectively) would have learned something. But I question whether we did. I admit to being concerned, but we cannot constantly exist in fear. I just hope some of the other countries are getting ahead of this and that we might benefit from their research and development. Because we all know that, with Trump, the US doesn't have anything meaningful any more.

Hugs, Lucky.

Wouldn't somewhere with named, qualified people be better than anonymous internet commenters?

a personalized individual plan of action:

1) Reddit comments will provide links to legitimate scientific studies.

2) Reddit comments will provide opinions from people who work in healthcare.

3) Reddit comments will provide anecdotal comments that others can relate to.

4) Reddit comments can provide suggestions on how to cope with pandemic fear.

5) Reddit comments can provide links to good personal protection equipment.

6) Reddit comments can provide real-time reports as to the situation on the ground in the commenters area at any particular time.

7) As on DU, Reddit commenters are serious if the subject sub-reddit is a serious one.

8) Reddit commenters often demand proof of claims that are posted.

I've bookmarked this thread for the link.

No one freaked out until it got on a Cruise Ship.

It's going to be OK. It's been contained.

Even more vulnerable than when Covid broke out, as we had a competent CDC and NIH. Now both are greatly diminished, and only morons are at the helm.