A Loud Voice Can Be a Virus Ally

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We’ve heard there are many things we can do to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Staying six feet from someone else, washing our hands, and wearing a mask. But there’s something else we can also do: Talk less. Speaking is a powerful generator of aerosols -- the fine particles emitted from our mouths that can harbor the SARS-CoV-2 virus and potentially linger for hours in poorly ventilated spaces. Turns out, shutting up can help shut those particles down. And as Bloomberg senior editor Jason Gale found out, if you must speak, it’s safer if you do it softly.

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0:35.3	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 189 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:45.7	Today's main story, the more we learn about the virus, the more ways we have to shift our behavior.
0:53.3	The latest surprise?
0:55.3	How loud we speak may matter for limiting the spread of the virus.
1:01.6	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:23.4	Tom. Top U.S. health officials offered conflicting estimates of when Americans should expect a widely available coronavirus vaccine.
1:34.3	In an interview today, Paul Mango, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, offered a very ambitious timetable. He said every American could be able to get a shot by the end of March 2021.
1:42.3	His remarks came after President Donald Trump said in a televised town hall event
1:48.0	last night that a vaccine could be approved in three or four weeks. But the director of the
1:56.1	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, gave Senate testimony today, and he was
2:02.9	less optimistic than Mango or Trump. His estimate was that most Americans wouldn't be able to get a shot
2:10.5	of an effective vaccine until the second or third quarter of next year.
2:18.0	AstraZeneca's vaccine trial remains paused in the U.S.
2:22.5	for a regulatory review of an incident where a participant developed unexplained neurological
2:29.3	symptoms, including limb weakness.
2:33.0	But the company said the symptoms probably weren't related to the shot itself.
2:39.0	That's according to a letter the company sent to participants in the study.
2:44.0	The letter reads, quote,
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