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Droplet, aerosol, airborne: The confusion over how COVID-19 spreads
COVID-19, particularly regarding its transmission.The terms “droplet,” “aerosol” and “airborne” are used when trying to explain how viruses are spread.For more than a year, health officials and experts have said COVID-19, a respiratory virus, is spread via droplets.Droplets are large mucus or saliva particles heavier than air that fall toward the ground and droplet transmission typically occurs when a droplet containing a virus comes in contact with another person’s eyes, nose or mouth.“By far, COVID-19 is spread through droplet transmission,” Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said Monday.“So when someone speaks, coughs, sneezes, those droplets go into the air.