> A lot of people live in either a city or a suburban area and most apartments and houses aren't air tight. Wouldn't your breath get circulated out of your apar

> A lot of people live in either a city or a suburban area and most apartments and houses aren't air tight. Wouldn't your breath get circulated out of your apartment, mixed in with the outside air and drift over to your neighbor -- or is the virus not that susceptible to spreading? Not an expert, but if I understand correctly the virus would be unlikely to survive that long outside the body. Even in the cruise ship which was docked in Japan, which would be a bit of a "worst-case" scenario for the transmission you describe, most people didn't get sick.