Transmission Risk of Airborne Viruses Can Be Quantified
Transmission Risk of Airborne Viruses Can Be Quantified The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstances, and what they mean for COVID-19 transmission risk March 3, 2021 In the 1995 movie "Outbreak," Dustin Hoffman's character realizes, with appropriately dramatic horror, that an infectious virus is "airborne" because it's found to be spreading through hospital vents. The issue of whether our real-life pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, is airborne is predictably more complex. The current body of evidence suggests that COVID-19 primarily spreads through r...