New studies suggest that English speakers put more droplets in the air when they speak, possibly which would make them more likely to propagate COVID-19. Because the new coronavirus spreads through droplets, the spitting nature of one tongue can contribute to others Everything comes down to what we call sucked consonants, the sounds we emit and that spray more drops of saliva into the air.
In college, everyone knew which teachers spat the most when they gave a lecture. The first rows of their categories were empty after the first day of school, as the most sensitive artists who sat there had bathed in the teacher’s saliva. bored, academics might be fascinated by how sunlight stuck pin drops, suspended in the air around the teacher.
Memories of teachers who spoke aloud is one thing. However, we now know that only speaking English can mean that we all spit out the people around us.
We all know that coughing or sneezing spreads germs, which is how we get colds and flu every year. This spread occurs because coughing or sneezing projects drops of viruses at high speed from our nose and throat into the air around us. That’s why we’re told to cough in our elbows and wash our hands before Covid-19.
Then, the advent of the coronavirus pandemic led to studies that revealed that not only coughing and sneezing, but also speaking cause aerosol viruses in the air. This is one of the main reasons for the advice that everyone wears a mask and stays two meters away. It now turns out that not all speeches bring the same amount of drops into the air, but it is based on the language used through the speaker.
One of the first indications that there might be a difference in the way viruses spread by language came here from comments made in China. Surprisingly, this did not happen with the Covid-19 pandemic, but the first SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in southern China This virus has caused more than 8,000 cases in 26 countries.
At the time, there were many more Japanese tourists than American tourists in southern China, however, the Americans accounted for 70 cases of SARS-CoV-1 and Japan had none. How can that be? At the time, an explanation from scientists was the language: since the staff at the Chinese store were multilingual, they spoke to American buyers in English while talking to Japanese tourists in Japanese, and that counts because English is full of sucked consonants while Japanese has few.
While Japanese has few aspirated consonants, leading speakers to produce little sputum when speaking, English has three. More precisely, the consonants [p] [t] and [k] are sucked in English. When making these sounds, a small droplets of the speaker’s airlines are projected into the air, creating a saliva cloud. If you are a carrier of a virus, the air is now full of virus particles.
So far, a speaker’s perspective can be repugnant, but we never imagine he could endanger us for a fatal illness. Covid-19 replaced all of that, which is why RUDN University researchers have studied whether other people who speak languages with sucked continents have a higher rate of infection with the new coronavirus.
The review tested the knowledge of 26 countries with more than 1,000 instances of Covid-19 as of March 23, 2020. This is a useful time window as it would be before the mask dress is generalized. Countries were grouped according to whether or not the languages spoken basically contained aspirated consonants.
In fact, there were more cases of coronavirus infection in countries that spoke languages with sucked consonants. These countries showed 255 instances of Covid-19 consisting of 1 million inhabitants, while countries where languages had few sucked consonants had 206 instances of Covid-19 consisting of 1 million inhabitants. Technically, these figures have not reached statistical significance, however, it is interesting.
The study cited experimental limitations, such as the formulation of hypotheses on the history of speaker language (which can also have an effect on the extent to which they aspire to their consonants). have also had an effect on those results. They refer to their article as a hypothesis, but strong and require additional studies.
Take him home? Wearing a mask is a practice to mitigate this problem. When we communicate with a mask, we keep our droplets for ourselves.
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How to break? We act well under pressure.
I teach other people how to use their own biology to do their best. After years of study, I created a 3-step approach based on neuroscience and psychology, and talked about it at TEDx. Then I went further and explored what happens when we broke the silos between the clinical disciplines. It’s amazing what you’re told when sociology talks about neuroscience or when children’s progression is about advertising research.
I am a board-certified pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Rush University. I have a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University, that is, in ideological and cultural history. My doctor came here from Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine at Rutgers University. My pediatrics, the residences were at Duke University and the University of Chicago. I’m a former pediatrics instructor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
Me in Illinois with my husband, two turbulent children and a variety of hamsters.