coronavirus pandemic, Canadian experts say changes are needed to address the indoor transmission of COVID-19 aerosols, tiny particles or droplets that can stay in the air.They say the current infection control protocols in place don’t adequately help to curb the airborne transmission of COVID-19 and that officials need to pivot to target the appropriate areas, like ventilation and proper mask-wearing.
Droplet, aerosol, airborne: The confusion over how COVID-19 spreads “We just need a sort of shift in our minds of how we view the way transmission works,” said Brooks Fallis, a critical care physician and former critical care director at the William Osler Health System.“I think people are quite fixated on hand-washing, two metres distancing.