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> No, the virus doesn't just float around in the air, at least, not for any appreciable amount of time. Can you share what degree of certainty you ascribe to t
by darkerside 7y ago
> No, the virus doesn't just float around in the air, at least, not for any appreciable amount of time.
Can you share what degree of certainty you ascribe to that claim?
Edit: Also, does this change it?
https://erinbromage.wixsite.com/covid19/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them https://erinbromage.wixsite.com/covid19/post/the-risks-know-...
- Symmetry 7y agoThat agrees that the virus is mostly transmitted via droplets rather aerosolized virus particles. A bare virus can float in the air for quite a while but all the evidence we have, especially stuff like form that site, seems to show that that isn't a route by which people are being infected. Instead its being transmitted over shorter distances, generally around 6 feet but longer if someone is shouting, singing, coughing without covering, or just directly downwind.
- darkerside 7y ago??? It talks about miniscule droplets that could stay in the air for minutes, and move downwind quite easily.
- jobigoud 7y agoI think what the parent commenter is saying is that maybe the virus stays in the air like that but it's not a way in which people get infected, otherwise the clusters wouldn't be so tight. Any tracing would be impossible for example. One possibility is that you need a threshold amount of virus to infect you so close contact is necessary.