GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “emerging evidence” that the novel coronavirus can spread through the air.
The acknowledgement comes a day after more than 200 scientists outlined evidence on the subject in an open letter to the organization.The WHO has long maintained that COVID-19 is spread via larger respiratory droplets, most often when people cough or sneeze, that then fall to the ground.
The health organization has dismissed the possibility of airborne transmission except in certain high-risk medical procedures, like when patients are first put on breathing machines.However, in the letter published July 6 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, two scientists from Australia and the U.S.