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Governor Andrew Cuomo's October 6. 2020 Nightly Update To New York.
Today, New York is taking further action to protect our state's progress and aggressively respond to clusters emerging in specific areas of the state.In consultation with national public health experts including former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, Dr. Noam Ross of the EcoHealth Alliance and Dr. Michael Olsterhold of the University of Minnesota, today we announced the new Cluster Action Initiative to attack these clusters head-on with surgical precision to stop the spread. This action maps the clusters by density of cases. -
240 Scientists Decree That Coronavirus Spreads In The Air Ventilation A Concern
A group of about 240 scientists is urging health care agencies and government officials to pay more attention to the potential airborne transmission of the new coronavirus.
"There is significant potential for inhalation exposure to viruses in microscopic respiratory droplets (microdroplets) at short to medium distances (up to several meters, or room-scale), and we are advocating for the use of preventive measures to mitigate this route of airborne transmission," the group said in an open letter published Monday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
