New coronavirus clusters have surfaced around the world as nations struggle to balance restarting their economies and preventing infections. LOS ANGELES - A simple and seemingly harmless conversation can produce thousands of oral fluid droplets that can be dispersed to a fairly large radius and can linger in the air for up to 14 minutes, and in some instances even longer, researchers suggest in a new study that may help answer key questions regarding the high transmissibility of the novel coronavirus.
According to the report, that was first published in the peer-reviewed journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” it is commonly known that respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 can spread through droplets that are produced