
Using a study design from the past, researchers again show COVID-19 is airborne
In 1959, researchers built a facility near Pretoria, South Africa, to study the airborne route of tuberculosis transmission, replicating an experiment first done in Baltimore. With a detailed schematic of ward rooms, test and control chambers, and room exhaust fans, the researchers proved nature’s deadliest bacterium traveled through the air, meaning infectious people in one part of a building could infect others through a ventilation system.
Infection prevention and control are always a top priority at infusion centers. So naturally, infusion centers come equipped with a great deal of experience in caring for patients with weakened immune systems. But highly-transmissible aerosolized diseases like COVID-19 represent a new challenge, requiring a new decontamination strategy.

