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

By Lydia Bourouiba. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020

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Thecurrentcoronavirusdisease2019 (COVID-19)outbreakvividly demonstratestheburdenthatrespiratoryinfectiousdiseasesimpose inanintimatelyconnectedworld.Unprecedentedcontainmentand mitigation policies have been implemented in an effort to limit the spreadofCOVID-19,includingtravelrestrictions,screeningandtest-ingoftravelers,isolationandquarantine,andschoolclosures. A key goal of such policies is to decrease the encounters be- tweeninfectedindividualsandsusceptibleindividualsanddeceler-ate the rate of transmission

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality (2020, neutral): “Unfortunately, the truth is that we have only a rudimentary knowledge of several aspects of infection spread, including on one critical aspect of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: how THIS virus transmits (Bourouiba 2020; Brosseau 2020).”
Coronavirus (COVID-19) (2020, background): “Although respiratory aerosol spread was initially controversial, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences has subsequently concluded there is some limited evidence that it is also spread by respiratory aerosols [27-35]; other evidence of aerosol spread is rapidly accruing, with increasing opi”
The efficacy of social distance and ventilation effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 transmission (2020, neutral): “With the outbreaking of COVID-19, a study reported that droplets can travel up to eight meters (23–27 feet) in the case of a sneeze, which means even small droplets may spread throughout a room (Bourouiba, 2020).”
Face Masks in the New COVID-19 Normal: Materials, Testing, and Perspectives (2020, background): “More recently, however, the “gas cloud” hypothesis has been proposed [25].”
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses (2021, background): “Additionally, when respiratory aerosols are exhaled, these particles are contained in an exhaled humid plume with its own speed and trajectory, which also play a role in determining the final reachable distance anddirection (86).”
Antivirus-built environment: Lessons learned from Covid-19 pandemic (2020, positive): “However, more recently published studies support the hypothesis of virus transmission over 2 m from an infected person (Bourouiba, 2020; Setti et al., 2020).”
Transmission of COVID-19 virus by droplets and aerosols: A critical review on the unresolved dichotomy (2020, methodology): “Based on 3-h viability of SARS-CoV-2 in the air (van Doremalen et al., 2020), prerequisites for the disease such as exposure, inhalation, and infection could occur minutes or a few hours later near and far from an aerosol source even in a stagnant environment (Bourouiba, 2020).”
Airborne Transmission Route of COVID-19: Why 2 Meters/6 Feet of Inter-Personal Distance Could Not Be Enough (2020, background): “Moreover, the recent insight by Bourouiba (2020) addressed the potential long distances covered by SARS-COV-2 through cough and sneeze, showing how the current knowledge on the size and number distributions of human aerosol emissions leads to consider the traditional cut-off of 5 mm used to…”
Minimising the present and future plastic waste, energy and environmental footprints related to COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “Recent reports of airborne transmission [23] have led to recommendations to use masks in public environments.”