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Editorial
. 2020 Jul 17;70(5):297-299.
doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqaa080.

Airborne Transmission of COVID-19

Jonathan Borak  1
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Editorial

Airborne Transmission of COVID-19

Jonathan Borak. Occup Med (Lond). .
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This figure is from Asadi S, Wexler AS, CAppa CD, Barreda S, Bouvier SM, Ristenpart WD. Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38808-z). Scientific Reports 2019; 9:2348This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ No changes were made to this image.
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