New wacky theory or real problem? According to a research letter published in the journal Emerging Infections Disease, air conditioning and air conditioning could spread the coronavirus. This study, published by several researchers from the Middle Empire, indicates that ten people from three different families were infected with Covid-19 after eating in the same air-conditioned restaurant in Guanghzou, China . One of the three families came from Wuhan, the Chinese epicenter of the pandemic that is hitting the planet today.
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"First of all," says doctor Jimmy Mohamed, "I invite people to be careful when studies bring fairly extraordinary conclusions". "Let's be patient, the week after may contradict the previous study." In addition, scientifically, the aerial transmission of the Covid-19 has not yet been proven.
WHO has never proven that virus transmission by air is possible
To support his remarks, Jimmy Mohamed takes the example of the flu and a broken down plane forced to land in Alaska, in the United States. One passenger had the flu and several others contracted it later. The hypothesis of airplane ventilation and airborne transmission was then put forward.
"Except that on closer inspection," says the doctor, "we realized that those who contracted the flu had all gone to the toilet located next to the passenger who had the flu initially". "Which means that it was the droplets expelled by the patient that could contaminate the others and not necessarily the air conditioning circuits."
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has never shown that airborne virus infection is an established theory. "It is therefore possible", concludes doctor Jimmy Mohamed, "but nothing is less certain".