{"id":874,"date":"2020-04-24T00:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2020-04-24T00:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:39:25","slug":"amateur-scientist-doing-some-good-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Amateur scientist doing some good work"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/04\/23\/covid-19-superspreader-events-in-28-countries-critical-patterns-and-lessons\/<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By surveying the publicly-available information about super-spreader events, he is determining the major mode of transmission of the virus; large droplets with ballistic behavior, small droplets that form clouds or virus on surfaces.  His conclusion, with lots of caveats about the quality of the underlying data, is the first: &#8220;Fl\u00fcgge&#8221; droplets that when expectorated are mostly affected by gravity.  As he says, this has implications for the preventative mechanisms we use, some of which actually act to <em>increase<\/em> the likelihood of the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>This work should be taken up by others.  Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/04\/23\/covid-19-superspreader-events-in-28-countries-critical-patterns-and-lessons\/ By surveying the publicly-available information about super-spreader events, he is determining the major mode of transmission of the virus; large droplets with ballistic behavior, small droplets that form clouds or virus on surfaces. His conclusion, with lots of caveats about the quality of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}