{"id":3251,"date":"2021-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2023-11-22T02:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:23:01","slug":"canadas-culture-of-silence-on-airborne-virus-transmission-leaves-many-confused-on-how-to-best-avoid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canadas-culture-of-silence-on-airborne-virus-transmission-leaves-many-confused-on-how-to-best-avoid-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s culture of silence on airborne virus transmission leaves many confused on how to best avoid infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the dog days of the pandemic. We continue to follow public health guidance, which is getting less restrictive, as we wait for vaccines to end this crisis. We have learned so much over the last year about how to better protect ourselves, including critical information that COVID is likely transmitted predominantly via airborne spread.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, many of our infectious disease and public health specialists \u2014 including our chief medical officers of health \u2014 seem to be unable to say the word \u201cairborne\u201d or \u201caerosol\u201d out loud, and instead continue to emphasize measures such as deep cleaning and plexiglass panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the dog days of the pandemic. We continue to follow public health guidance, which is getting less restrictive, as we wait for vaccines to end this crisis. We have learned so much over the last year about how to better protect ourselves, including critical information that COVID is likely transmitted predominantly via airborne spread.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, many of our infectious disease and public health specialists \u2014 including our chief medical officers of health \u2014 seem to be unable to say the word \u201cairborne\u201d or \u201caerosol\u201d out loud, and instead continue to emphasize measures such as deep cleaning and plexiglass panels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canadas-culture-of-silence-on-airborne-virus-transmission-leaves-many-confused-on-how-to-best-avoid-infection\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada\u2019s culture of silence on airborne virus transmission leaves many confused on how to best avoid infection<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,96,18,380,14],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airborne-transmission","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-droplet-dogma","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}