{"id":1415,"date":"2020-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehealthworkforcehub.org\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2020-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:00:00","slug":"pandemic-exposes-scientific-rift-over-proving-when-germs-are-airborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/pandemic-exposes-scientific-rift-over-proving-when-germs-are-airborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Exposes Scientific Rift Over Proving When Germs Are Airborne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/933759?nlid=136393_5402&amp;src=wnl_dne_200714_mscpedit&amp;uac=372963HR&amp;impID=2459226&amp;faf=1\" target=\"_blank\">this recent article in Medscape<\/a>, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century &#8211; to the very origins of germ theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Geneva-based World Health Organization acknowledged this week that the novel coronavirus can spread through tiny droplets floating in the air, a nod to more than 200 experts in aerosol science who publicly complained that the U.N. agency had failed to warn the public about this risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the WHO still insists on more definitive proof that the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, can be transmitted through the air, a trait that would put it on par with measles and tuberculosis and require even more stringent measures to contain its spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;WHO&#8217;s slow motion on this issue is unfortunately slowing the control of the pandemic,&#8221; said Jose Jimenez, a University of Colorado chemist who signed the public letter urging the agency to change its guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century &#8211; to the very origins of germ theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-the-workforce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}