AMA Victoria (Australia)president slams nebuliser use at Holiday Inn after COVID quarantine outbreak

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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/ama-victoria-president-slams-nebuliser-use-at-holiday-inn-after-covid-quarantine-outbreak/news-story/2ff0ff3477c296c63eea71bc1146329d

AMA Victoria president slams nebuliser use at Holiday Inn after COVID quarantine outbreak

By JACK PAYNTER
NCA NEWSWIRE
10:55AM FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The chief of the Australian Medical Association in Victoria has slammed the use of the device thought to be responsible for the latest COVID-19 outbreak.

The state’s chief health officer Brett Sutton revealed on Wednesday a nebuliser – a device that vaporises liquid into fine mist – was believed to be behind the spread of coronavirus at the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn quarantine hotel.

The outbreak has now infected eight people after two new cases were announced on Wednesday afternoon.

The cases include a family of three, two other returned travellers who were quarantining and a food and beverage worker, authorised officer and another worker based at the hotel.

The working theory of health officials is the food and beverage worker, authorised officer and a resident who has since left hotel quarantine became infected when a quarantine guest with the virus used a nebuliser for medical treatment.

That caused fine aerosolised particles carrying coronavirus to be suspended in the air and spread throughout the hotel.
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1. Ironically, one of the first treatments that works is an asthma inhaler.

The science behind nebulizers and covid:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676318/

New tx:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/asthma-drug-budesonide-may-reduce-risk-severe-covid-if-taken-early-study