Aerosol Generation During Exercise: Implications for Preventing Viral Transmission In and Out of the Exercise Laboratory

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: mklompas@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Michael Klompas et al. Chest. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;160(4):1174-1176.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.05.065.

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: mklompas@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

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