An overlooked toolbox in Covid-19 pandemic management


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 16 May 2021

Difference between droplet and airborne transmission.

SCIENTIFIC evidence accumulated after a year of the Covid-19 pandemic now points towards the predominant long-range (over five feet) airborne nature of its transmission.

To date, transmission of this nature received only cursory attention from authorities, policymakers worldwide and more so by the general public. Therefore, our existing pandemic management measures focussing solely on droplet and fomite transmission, although extensive, might be sub-optimal.

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