CORONAVIRUS: IS IT AIRBORNE?
Aug 06, 2020
3 minutes
by JAMES LLOYD
Airborne transmission | Treating COVID-19 | Statues and psychology
“The researchers calculated that one minute of loud speech could generate at least 1,000 small, virus-containing droplets”
WHAT’S THE MAIN WAY THE CORONAVIRUS SPREADS?
The scientific consensus is that the coronavirus is spread mostly through ‘respiratory droplets’: virus-laden globs of saliva or mucus that are propelled from an infected person’s nose or mouth when they cough, sneeze, talk or sing. These droplets are larger than five micrometres (pm) in diameter (one micrometre = one-thousandth of
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