Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions: Potential Implications for Reducing Transmission of COVID-19

JAMA. 2020 May 12;323(18):1837-1838. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.4756.

Author

Lydia Bourouiba¹

Affiliation

¹ The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

PMID: 32215590
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.4756

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus* / isolation & purification
Biophysical Phenomena
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Cough
Disease Transmission, Infectious / history
Exhalation
Gases
Health Personnel
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Humans
Masks
Occupational Diseases / prevention & control
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
SARS-CoV-2
Sneezing
Social Isolation

Substances

Gases