(Snippets from the frontline)
COVID-19: We’re not in 1918
During the 1918 pandemic, no one was told to have 6 feet of separation, wear N-95 masks, or obtain a swab or blood antibody test to determine if they had the disease.
The science and technology of 1918 is ancient, while every day new information about COVID-19 is revealed. Studies are being done at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC – created by the Department of Homeland Security) in Maryland. Here is an NBC link:
NBACC works to understand how this virus survives, and what we can do to mitigate infection.
One pertinent point I bring forward in this snippet: The virus does not survive at certain air temperatures. Studies cannot tell us what that number is yet, but let’s say it is 80 degrees. Can we then control the environment, and therefore the virus? NBACC must do the study.
There might be financial implication if a restaurant, beauty salon, or airplane cabin temperature is kept above 80 degrees (while we continue to wear masks, have separation, and disinfect the area).
Sacrificing discomfort would be economically worth it…in 2020.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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