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The title is highly editorialized misinformation. The study is saying that aerosolized virus is pretty much nonexistent outdoors (as everyone expected - fresh a
by ummonk 6y ago
The title is highly editorialized misinformation. The study is saying that aerosolized virus is pretty much nonexistent outdoors (as everyone expected - fresh air works), but does not deny droplet transmission outdoors, which is what social distancing and mask wearing is designed to prevent.
From the abstract: "Transmission by contact or at close range due to large respiratory droplets is widely accepted, however, the role of airborne transmission due to small respiratory droplets emitted by infected individuals (also asymptomatic) is controversial"