Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2

2021/04/15 by Trisha Greenhalgh, Jose L Jimenez, J. L. Jiménez +8 · 1 voice · 9 citations
Mathematics · Medicine · #COVID-19 and healthcare impacts #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #Infection Control and Ventilation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00869-2

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Citations

• Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1
• Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China
• Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics
• It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms
• Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Cited by

• Airborne Pathogen Detection in Fine Aerosol Exhaled Breath Condensates
• Practical Indicators for Risk of Airborne Transmission in Shared Indoor Environments and Their Application to COVID-19 Outbreaks
• Room-level ventilation in schools and universities
• The Removal of Airborne Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Other Microbial Bioaerosols by Air Filtration on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surge Units
• Fomites and the environment did not have an important role in COVID-19 transmission in a Brazilian mid-sized city
• Effectiveness of portable air filtration on reducing indoor aerosol transmission: preclinical observational trials
• Airborne SARS-CoV-2 in home and hospital environments investigated with a high-powered air sampler
• Low risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission via fomite, even in cold-chain
• Quantity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies exhaled per minute during natural breathing over the course of COVID-19 infection

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