Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses

CC Wang, KA Prather, J Sznitman, JL Jimenez… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Exposure to droplets produced in the coughs and sneezes of infected
individuals or contact with droplet-contaminated surfaces (fomites) have been widely …

COVID-19 transmission, current treatment, and future therapeutic strategies

VS Salian, JA Wright, PT Vedell, S Nair… - Molecular …, 2021 - ACS Publications
At the stroke of the New Year 2020, COVID-19, a zoonotic disease that would turn into a
global pandemic, was identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Although unique in its …

Aerosol and surface contamination of SARS-CoV-2 observed in quarantine and isolation care

JL Santarpia, DN Rivera, VL Herrera, MJ Morwitzer… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) originated in
Wuhan, China in late 2019, and its resulting coronavirus disease, COVID-19, was declared …

A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19

MZ Bazant, JWM Bush - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The current revival of the American economy is being predicated on social distancing,
specifically the Six-Foot Rule, a guideline that offers little protection from pathogen-bearing …

COVID-19 and the impact of social determinants of health

EM Abrams, SJ Szefler - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the pathogen severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), originated in Wuhan, China, and has …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of airborne viral emission: Quanta emission rate of SARS-CoV-2 for infection risk assessment

G Buonanno, L Stabile, L Morawska - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission is a pathway of contagion that is still not sufficiently investigated
despite the evidence in the scientific literature of the role it can play in the context of an …

The flow physics of COVID-19

R Mittal, R Ni, JH Seo - Journal of fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Flow physics plays a key role in nearly every facet of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes
the generation and aerosolization of virus-laden respiratory droplets from a host, its airborne …

The coronavirus pandemic and aerosols: Does COVID-19 transmit via expiratory particles?

S Asadi, N Bouvier, AS Wexler… - Aerosol Science and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
As of late March 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has
battered the world. More than 40,000 people have died with over 800,000 people confirmed …

Consideration of the aerosol transmission for COVID‐19 and public health

EL Anderson, P Turnham, JR Griffin, CC Clarke - Risk Analysis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article analyzes the available evidence to address airborne, aerosol transmission of the
SARS‐CoV‐2. We review and present three lines of evidence: case reports of transmission …

The fluid dynamics of disease transmission

L Bourouiba - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
For an infectious disease such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to spread,
contact needs to be established between an infected host and a susceptible one. In a range …