What Does it Mean for a Virus to Be “Airborne”?

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Thanks for watching Scishow, which is produced by Complexly, if you’re a US citizen and you want to not only keep imagining the world complexly with us but also have a voice in your government, check out How To Vote In Every State. The rules for voting are different depending on where you live, so we’ve made a whole series of videos explaining how to vote in each state, as well as some advice for special cases like territories and overseas voters. Check out our 2020 guide at youtube.com/howtovoteineverystate What does it mean when a virus is airborne? It turns out it's more than just what comes out when you sneeze Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: COVID-19 airborne lifetime (2020) www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/22/11875.full.pdf Transmission of COVID-19 virus by droplets and aerosols (2020) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293495/ Recognition of aerosol transmission of infectious agents: a commentary (2019) bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-019-3707-y Opinion letter academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa939/5867798?searchresult=1 Measles info for CDC www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/index.html Human cough as jet propulsion journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169235 Couple of downloadable open access videos of droplet visualization experiments that accompanies the 2020 PNAS paper. zenodo.org/record/3770559#.XxdG0PhKhTZ WHO Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-implications-for-infection-prevention-precautions Natural Ventilation for Infection Control in Health-Care Settings. Annex C. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143281/ Indirect Person to Person Transmission sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/PH/PH709_Transmission/PH709_Transmission4.html Is the coronavirus airborne? Experts can’t agree www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00974-w Aerosol Transmission of Infectious Disease journals.lww.com/joem/Abstract/2015/05000/Aerosol_Transmission_of_Infectious_Disease.4.aspx Estimation of airborne viral emission: Quanta emission rate of SARS-CoV-2 for infection risk assessment pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32416374/ Factors involved in the aerosol transmission of infection and control of ventilation in healthcare premises www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114857/ Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know mbio.asm.org/content/6/2/e00137-15 Airborne bacteria and viruses www.jstor.org/stable/43421049?seq=1 DoH Measles Info www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/measles.htm Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-how-is-covid-19-transmitted www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-implications-for-infection-prevention-precautions

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