COVID-19 has produced a prolonged attack on public life, especially indoor life. Many of the largest super-spreader events took place inside: at a church, in an auditorium, or at a conference. The risk of infection indoors is almost 19 times higher than in open-air environments, according to a study from researchers in Japan.
Today, states are emerging from the lockdown phase of the crisis and entering a queasy period of reopening. But offices, stores, theaters, restaurants, bars, gyms, fitness centers, etc. will have no semblance of regularity until we learn how to be safe.
Korean CDC study concludes that the spread of the virus is not common touchpoints, such as doors and elevator buttons, but rather a common airspace. When people talk or sneeze or cough, they produce respiratory droplets that can come to rest in other people’s mouths, noses, and lungs. Talking for hours in close quarters, in an unventilated space, can create an ideal situation for the COVID-19 virus to transmit.
William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Business Insider that, no matter how far coronavirus droplets travel, they are not, technically, "airborne”.
"These droplets are usually transmitted within three to six feet, but these droplets can be pushed farther out, sometimes even beyond six feet, if you give the exhalation more energy, with a cough or a sneeze or a shout or even singing," Schaffner said.
The droplets can travel further than six feet if they are ejected by people speaking loudly or singing.
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