- If it were just a pure drip infection, with drops falling down to the ground, we would not find it in the attic, says Erik Salaneck, who is one of the researchers behind the study, among other things.
Anders Tegnell does not object to the virus being able to travel further than they could through pure droplet infection, but he does not conclude that it is spread via the air.
"This [is] by no means new findings, without having found viruses on various surfaces in the environment etc. has been done several times before", Anders Tegnell writes in an email to SVT Nyheter.
Primarily contact infection
He continues: “This has not meant that neither the Swedish Public Health Agency nor the CDC, WHO and other major players have changed their basic assessment that this is primarily a contact infection that is transmitted in close contacts.
All epidemiology points in that direction. "
Tegnell believes that there may be exceptions "in special situations".
You can certainly in special situations cause an aerosol that can be spread a little longer, but there are no cases described when you have the spread of infection via ventilation systems etc. as with the real airborne infections ", he writes.
FHM does not change
He therefore believes that the new study does not cause the Swedish Public Health Agency to change its position.
Among other things, because the virus found in it was not contagious.
"Overall, the study adds nothing that is not previously known.
It is also noteworthy that the virus found was not viable, ie not infectious.
Does not change any positions that the authority has made ", writes Anders Tegnell.