{"id":267,"date":"2020-04-02T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=267"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:39:13","slug":"is-the-coronavirus-airborne-should-we-all-wear-masks-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/02\/is-the-coronavirus-airborne-should-we-all-wear-masks-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Coronavirus Airborne? Should We All Wear Masks? &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Much of this confusion stems from the shifting conversation around the pandemic. Thus far, the official line has been that the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, could be transmitted only through close contact with infected people or contaminated surfaces. But recently, news reports have suggested that the coronavirus can spread through the air. After 60 choir members in Washington State rehearsed together, 45 fell sick, even though no one seemed symptomatic at the time. Now people who were already feeling cooped up are worrying about going outside. Many state guidelines are ambiguous, and medical advice can muddy matters further. When the writer Deborah Copaken came down with COVID-19 symptoms, her doctor chided her for riding her bike through New York City a week earlier. Going outside in the city wasn\u2019t safe, the physician implied, with \u201cviral load everywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-pandemic-airborne-go-outside-masks\/609235\/?utm_source=pocket&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=pockethits\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Is the Coronavirus Airborne? Should We All Wear Masks? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of this confusion stems from the shifting conversation around the pandemic. Thus far, the official line has been that the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, could be transmitted only through close contact with infected people or contaminated surfaces. But recently, news reports have suggested that the coronavirus can spread through the air. After 60 choir members &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/02\/is-the-coronavirus-airborne-should-we-all-wear-masks-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}