Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2

. 2021 May 1;397(10285):1603-1605.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Trisha Greenhalgh¹, Jose L Jimenez², Kimberly A Prather³, Zeynep Tufekci⁴, David Fisman⁵, Robert Schooley⁶

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¹ Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK. Electronic address: trish.greenhalgh@phc.ox.ac.uk.
² Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
³ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁴ School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁵ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

PMID: 33865497
PMCID: PMC8049599
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2

Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Trisha Greenhalgh et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 May 1;397(10285):1603-1605.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

Authors

Trisha Greenhalgh¹, Jose L Jimenez², Kimberly A Prather³, Zeynep Tufekci⁴, David Fisman⁵, Robert Schooley⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK. Electronic address: trish.greenhalgh@phc.ox.ac.uk.
² Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
³ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁴ School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁵ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

PMID: 33865497
PMCID: PMC8049599
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2

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[1] Heneghan C, Spencer E, Brassey J, et al. SARS-CoV-2 and the role of airborne transmission: a systematic review. F1000Research. 2021 doi: 10.12688/f1000research.52091.1. published online March 24. (preprint). - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Heneghan C, Spencer E, Brassey J, et al. SARS-CoV-2 and the role of airborne transmission: a systematic review. F1000Research. 2021 doi: 10.12688/f1000research.52091.1. published online March 24. (preprint). - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Prather KA, Wang CC, Schooley RT. Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 2020;6498:1422–1424. - PubMed

[4] Prather KA, Wang CC, Schooley RT. Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 2020;6498:1422–1424. - PubMed

[5] Pan M, Lednicky JA, Wu CY. Collection, particle sizing and detection of airborne viruses. J Appl Microbiol. 2019;127:1596–1611. - PMC - PubMed

[6] Pan M, Lednicky JA, Wu CY. Collection, particle sizing and detection of airborne viruses. J Appl Microbiol. 2019;127:1596–1611. - PMC - PubMed

[7] Gelfand HM, Posch J. The recent outbreak of smallpox in Meschede, west Germany. Am J Epidemiol. 1971;93:234–237. - PubMed

[8] Gelfand HM, Posch J. The recent outbreak of smallpox in Meschede, west Germany. Am J Epidemiol. 1971;93:234–237. - PubMed

[9] Morawska L, Milton DK. It is time to address airborne transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Clinical Infect Dis. 2020;71:2311–2313. - PMC - PubMed

[10] Morawska L, Milton DK. It is time to address airborne transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Clinical Infect Dis. 2020;71:2311–2313. - PMC - PubMed

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