This video has been posted several times so far on er.org, but that's a good summary that you've written.
This brings up my SARS-CoV-2 thought for the day (Danger Will Robinson!):
Dr Price will be infected before the year ends.
He put himself out there on the video, stating flatly that he won't get it, even though he spends his days taking care of Covid-19 patients using the reasoning that he simply won't contaminate himself using his hands.
Why do I think that's not enough? Here's why and please tell me I'm being illogical here, but I can't see the hole in the logic:
- The observed spread rate is too big to be from direct "droplets" alone.
- The other possible mechanisms include 1) surface / hand / face and 2) aerosol particles.
- Despite lasting for 3 days on some surfaces, this virus is not particularly hearty outside the body, and it needs to get from the surface, to the hand, then to the mucus membrane of the next victim, which is becoming quite a challenge lately, due to hyper awareness.
- Yet even with hyper awareness and N95 masks, those in close proximity with patients with the virus STILL get the disease.
- I conclude that although we are told "there's no proof that transmission is through aerosol particles", it seems likely to me, just based on observation.
- N95 masks do not filter individual virus particles (0.1 microns)
So I conclude that anybody working for many hours a a day in an environment housing many people with active Covid-19, including Price, will eventually get the disease, even if they don't contaminate themselves using their own hands.