Each day, epidemiologists and public health experts asked to contextualise and explain the intricacies of a virus we still know little about, to an uncertain public desperate for answers. So how have their own routines changed?
It should come as little surprise then, that she was on the front foot of mask wearing and social distancing even prior to the pandemic."I very quickly learned how to prevent this... There were situations at home when I was sick and I said, 'Well, I'm wearing a mask'."Before the myriad of public health advice, they were conscious of ventilation.
A lot of science around airborne transmission of the virus "has been ignored", Professor Morawska says.WatchLidia Morawska was one of 239 scientists who penned an open letter urging the WHO to change their advice around airborne transmission of the virus. As one of those involved in trying to manage the response to coronavirus, Dr Griffin is all too aware of the need to be proactive."All the things we've been telling everyone to do, I've been doing myself," he says.That means paying close attention to hand hygiene and social distancing, Dr Griffin says, and trading meals out for take away.
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