Raina McIntyre
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581 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2021
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Good evening, Norman.
So there's now pretty overwhelming evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can be spread by aerosols.
The original statement by the WHO that it's spread by droplets and contact is not based on any evidence at all.
They just pulled it out of a hat and said it, and then anyone who tried to say any differently was held to a different standard of proof.
So there was no proof required to say it's spread by droplets and contact, and there's actually quite a large body of evidence now, including several studies from hospitals which show that the virus can be found in the air, on air vents,
And at quite a distance from the patient, you know, well over four meters, which is longer than people think that longer distance than large droplets can travel.
And there's also been a really good study that's come out from the US.
It was done across five top labs in the US, including the NIH and the US Army Medical Research Institute, which showed that
not only is SARS-CoV-2 more aerosolized than SARS and MERS, so it's more airborne in its potential than the other two beta coronaviruses, but once it's aerosolized, you can detect viable virus 16 hours after it's been aerosolized.
So that means that, you know, a patient with COVID-19 being in a room, taken out for an x-ray or whatever, that
their aerosols can hover around in the air for hours and hours, so people walking through can get infected.
Well, we don't have to.
We didn't in calling the pandemic.
If you recall, WHO, you know, didn't want to call a pandemic for a long time when it was obvious to everyone that we were in the middle of a pandemic, and Australia called the pandemic before the WHO.
So I think WHO has been, you know...
behind the eight ball on a lot of things, aerosol transmission, on asymptomatic transmission, and on even calling the pandemic.
So we have developed an epidemic observatory called EpiWatch, and the principle is that people talk about epidemics before any notification lands on a health department desk, so before formal authorities know about it.
So the principle is you look for rumor surveillance or open source intelligence that gives you a signal that something is happening and you can do that in lots of different ways.
So we used the Chinese search engine Baidu and looked for a signal using various algorithms for pneumonia of unknown cause and found that there was at least one case
of pneumonia of unknown cause, a patient in Hubei province who was transferred by helicopter to Wuhan from another city in the same province in mid-November.
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