Airborne vs Droplet Transmission
I’ve decided to break my Monday-updates schedule to address a developing COVID-19 story that I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this week.
This week, 239 scientists signed off on a commentary calling for increased attention to the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread by airborne transmission. Yesterday, the World Health Organization released an updated scientific brief acknowledging that COVID-19 might be spread by airborne transmission. If you’re anything like me, then you’ve probably seen a lot of headlines about this, and overheard a lot of discussions about it. So what does it mean?