Five physicians have written in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that the Public Health Agency of Canada must adopt airborne transmission protocols to stop the spread of COVID-19.
TORONTO -- A group of doctors and health-care providers are calling on public health organizations in Canada to acknowledge airborne spread of COVID-19 and adjust restrictions accordingly.
“Places can really look at their cleaning protocols that are excessive. The focus on contacts and surfaces through fomite transmission is not going to be a main driver of transmission in this pandemic,” said Leung. “If we don't get this right now, then we won't be prepared. We'll be dealing with the same controversies, or lack of acknowledgement of transmission when we deal with future respiratory viruses if we don't take into account the information we have now,” he said.
“The benefits are huge,” he said. “In a school you get better cognitive performance, higher test scores, reduced absenteeism, you get better health outcomes, you get higher salaries when the students graduate,” said Siegel. “The worst thing that happens if we mitigate an airborne component is that I'm entirely wrong. And there's no benefit in doing so. But that's the absolute worst and all the other things that we know are associated with indoor air quality get better,” he added.
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