New Ways to Catch the Virus

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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We’re learning more about how the virus that causes Covid-19 is spread from person to person. For the most part, it happens when we’re in close contact with an infected person, who emits tiny liquid particles by coughing, sneezing, speaking or singing. You get sick by inhaling the droplets, or having them travel into your ears or nose. But researchers are looking at another way it may be transmitted. Jason Gale reports that virus-laden aerosols, floating in gas clouds, might be capable of infecting us.

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0:35.2	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 124 since coronavirus was declared a global
0:43.7	pandemic. Today's main story, much of what we know suggests the virus is transmitted through
0:50.4	tiny droplets from infected people. But researchers are now looking at tiny aerosols that linger in the air,
0:58.9	and whether they too can infect us.
1:03.6	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:14.2	The virus news today. The World Health Organization had a sobering message at a briefing this morning.
1:19.5	COVID-19 won't disappear quickly, and it's unrealistic to hang our hopes on a perfect vaccine
1:26.8	emerging soon. W.H.O. head, Tadres Adanam
1:32.2	Gabrizes said strong government leadership was necessary, and that fighting the virus is a long-term
1:39.2	commitment. In the U.S., the virus is making a comeback in states that thought they'd already endured the worst of it.
1:49.8	California, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington state are seeing case counts climb again after months of declines.
1:58.6	It's not just a matter of more testing.
2:03.3	Hospitalizations, and in some places, deaths, are rising too. Experts say the diseases on the rise in these states for the same
2:11.0	reasons it's breaking records in places like Florida. Those reasons include a population
2:16.3	no longer willing to stay inside, Republicans who refuse
2:20.1	face masks as a political statement, street protests over police violence, and young people convinced
2:26.7	the virus won't seriously hurt them.
2:31.2	Early in the pandemic, New York had one of the worst outbreaks in the U.S. and took some of the strictest lockdown measures.
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