While protesters can’t completely eliminate the risk of illness from the coronavirus, doctors say they can take certain steps to decrease the chances.
While protesters can't completely eliminate the risk of illness from the coronavirus, they can take steps to decrease the chances.
"It is difficult to imagine that we will not see a spike in Covid-19 transmission due to the protests," said Ryan Demmer, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. "Many days of large, in-person gatherings are powerful forces that can accelerate transmission."and 105,000 deaths as of Tuesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine in March found the virus can survive for several hours in aerosols and last days on surfaces such as copper, cardboard, plastic and stainless steel.Infectious disease experts and doctors recommend using hand sanitizer and avoiding physical contact while greeting people, including shaking hands.
Protesters should also wear a face covering and eye protection, said Bob Bednarczyk, an epidemiologist at Rollins school of public health at Emory, adding that yelling is another way the virus can be transmitted.He recommended the use of a megaphone or other voice amplifier. Wen echoed those sentiments, saying, "you can use signs and a noisemaker instead."
He also said it's more difficult for the virus to spread outside versus indoors, but cautioned, "in those settings you can't control the environment around you."Yanzhong Huang, a public health researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Center for Global Health Studies at Seton Hall University, said the trajectory of the virus and potential for another outbreak to a large extent depends on the level and size of population movements.
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