REBROADCAST: ...what we actually know about how COVID-19 spreads? (with Jose-Luis Jimenez)
Ever Wonder? from the California Science Center
English - July 06, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBScience Education science engineering museums science centers Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Throughout the pandemic, public health officials have offered guidance on how to slow the spread of COVID-19. Since March 2020, we’ve learned how to properly wash our hands. We’ve practiced physical distancing. And wearing face masks has become a regular part of our daily routine. All these interventions are designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 based on everything we know about how respiratory diseases typically move from one person to the next.
But with everything new we’ve learned about COVID-19, do you ever wonder what we actually know about how it spreads?
Jose-Luis Jimenez (@jljcolorado), a professor and aerosol scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, talked with us about the science of COVID-19 transmission. You may have heard of him or some of his colleagues when more than 200 scientists published an open letter to the WHO supporting the claim that COVID-19 is an airborne disease. Or you may have seen his Twitter thread on ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of COVID. Our conversation was a fascinating glimpse into the history and process of science, with important implications for ending the pandemic.
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