COVID Airborne Transmission
Comments debate whether COVID-19 spreads primarily through airborne aerosols, microdroplets, or larger droplets, referencing studies, CDC guidelines, and ventilation impacts.
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Here this from 2021 should do. Sorry NyTimes paywall, but the first paragraph tells where it. There is a lot out there about this.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...
It's in the air, aerosolized, and even enables pathogens like covid to be spread!
The virus is transmitted from person to person in close proximity, not through long distance airborne dispersion. If you have someone coughing 1 meter away the filtering and ventilation do not matter, except that a strong ventilation can carry the particles on a longer distance, increasing the risk of transmission.
The virus can travel through droplets and other large particles, so you definitely have to watch out for people sneezing etc. around you. There isn't any consensus, however, for whether it is airborne or not, i.e. whether it can be in regular exhaled air. Of course you should take precautions regardless.
Droplets of air allow for transmission
Some studies suggest covid spreads more by droplets than aerosols.https://mobile.twitter.com/zeynep/status/1251556084424347649
Isn't this virus transmitted via droplets, not aerosols?
I wonder if the airflow would risk spreading the virus.
The virus isn't going to be airborne naked as an individual thing in the free air - it's going to be in droplets of stuff (from sneezing, coughing, etc).
virus particles really are in the air infecting people.