‘Stop dancing around airborne transmission,’ say expert doctors
Public health expert Adjunct Professor Tarun Weeramanthri calls on the government's infection control body to update its policies to reflect scientific evidence
Doctors are calling on the nation’s infection control expert group to “stop dancing around” the issue of aerosol spread of COVID-19 to prevent further leaks from hotel quarantine.
Public health expert Adjunct Professor Tarun Weeramanthri says airborne transmission poses the “biggest single residual” risk for hotel quarantine and long-term management of the pandemic.
“It is time to stop dancing around the issue of airborne transmission,” wrote Professor Weeramanthri in the Public Health Association of Australia’s journal — of which he is president.
He called on the Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) to update its policies given the many academic papers supporting airborne transmission especially in hotel quarantine.
