Joe Biden is not yet in the clear: health experts
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The Atlantic is going someplace many of us might have thought but have refused to entertain. In a piece called “Could Trump Have Infected Biden?” questions are being asked about whether the ill president may have gotten his political rival ill as well. Even though Joe Biden has tested negative so far, “a negative test doesn’t say he’s completely in the clear,” says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University.
The debate created the perfect storm of conditions that showed exactly why indoor bars and restaurants are to be avoided during the pandemic. It was an enclosed space. And even though Trump and Biden were standing more than six feet apart, Infected droplets might have been directed in Biden’s direction. Linsey Marr, a researcher looking into airborne-disease transmission at Virginia Tech told The Atlantic, “Aerosols behave like cigarette smoke and don’t stop at six feet. Imagine Trump was smoking the whole time. Would Biden have been exposed to some of that?” Trump was also yelling, often in Biden’s direction, and for 90 minutes. Harvard environmental health expert Joseph Allen said, “It wasn’t a one-off cough by someone in the audience. It was one and a half hours of constant emissions.” However, the Cleveland Clinic said after news of Trump’s diagnosis (via Slate), “Based on what we know about the virus and the safety measures we had in place, we believe there is low risk of exposure to our guests.”
For now we can only wait and hope that the debate doesn’t end up becoming a super-spreader event.
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By Hope Ngo/Oct. 2, 2020 10:50 pm EST
Joe Biden is not yet in the clear: health experts
The Atlantic is going someplace many of us might have thought but have refused to entertain. In a piece called “Could Trump Have Infected Biden?” questions are being asked about whether the ill president may have gotten his political rival ill as well. Even though Joe Biden has tested negative so far, “a negative test doesn’t say he’s completely in the clear,” says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University.
The debate created the perfect storm of conditions that showed exactly why indoor bars and restaurants are to be avoided during the pandemic. It was an enclosed space. And even though Trump and Biden were standing more than six feet apart, Infected droplets might have been directed in Biden’s direction. Linsey Marr, a researcher looking into airborne-disease transmission at Virginia Tech told The Atlantic, “Aerosols behave like cigarette smoke and don’t stop at six feet. Imagine Trump was smoking the whole time. Would Biden have been exposed to some of that?” Trump was also yelling, often in Biden’s direction, and for 90 minutes. Harvard environmental health expert Joseph Allen said, “It wasn’t a one-off cough by someone in the audience. It was one and a half hours of constant emissions.” However, the Cleveland Clinic said after news of Trump’s diagnosis (via Slate), “Based on what we know about the virus and the safety measures we had in place, we believe there is low risk of exposure to our guests.”
For now we can only wait and hope that the debate doesn’t end up becoming a super-spreader event.
The debate created the perfect storm of conditions that showed exactly why indoor bars and restaurants are to be avoided during the pandemic. It was an enclosed space. And even though Trump and Biden were standing more than six feet apart, Infected droplets might have been directed in Biden’s direction. Linsey Marr, a researcher looking into airborne-disease transmission at Virginia Tech told The Atlantic, “Aerosols behave like cigarette smoke and don’t stop at six feet. Imagine Trump was smoking the whole time. Would Biden have been exposed to some of that?”
Trump was also yelling, often in Biden’s direction, and for 90 minutes. Harvard environmental health expert Joseph Allen said, “It wasn’t a one-off cough by someone in the audience. It was one and a half hours of constant emissions.” However, the Cleveland Clinic said after news of Trump’s diagnosis (via Slate), “Based on what we know about the virus and the safety measures we had in place, we believe there is low risk of exposure to our guests.”
For now we can only wait and hope that the debate doesn’t end up becoming a super-spreader event.
