Masking up is back again as China faces a significant strain of a new Covid mutation virus outbreak, and the rest of the world gears up for protection and precautions. Wearing the mask is one of the many precautions we all have been taking, but let’s go a bit deeper into the spread of the disease with Lydia Bourouiba, a fluid dynamics expert and transmission of illness at MIT, who explains how the physics of sneezes and coughs through exhalation leads to the spread of respiratory pathogens like COVID-19 in the published article on The Scientist.
The Covid-19 virus created reckless havoc worldwide, and its strains do not seem to go away. How this virus travels from one body to another is the question that led to several research and studies. Epidemiologists discovered that airborne transmission is the most understudied mechanism that contributes to spreading viruses like Covid and other pathogens that affect the respiratory system and reside in respiratory fluids.
Let’s understand the physics of how simple coughs and sneezes transmit diseases from one person to another by clicking on the read more.
