id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-319822-h1zm94p4 Carelli, Pasquale A physicist's approach to COVID-19 transmission via expiratory droplets 2020-06-17 .txt text/plain 1412 61 58 My thesis is supported and described on the basis of a physicist's model which studies the droplets behavior when emitted by the respiratory apparatus of an infected person, symptomatic or not. The intermediate dimensioned droplets are proved to be changed into aerosol, losing their water content and becoming seriously contagious, but in their initial phase they could be easily caught by a simple surgical mask. This habit, There are non doubts about the fact that expiratory particles transmit the pandemic, but we must make a coarse distinction among droplets and their dynamic evolutions when emitted by infected people. These droplets have a substantial viral load, they are quite numerous, some thousands of them can contain just one single virion each and they are probably the most contagious and dangerous elements[14]; if not stopped on time, they constitute the real element of airborne infection [15] . ./cache/cord-319822-h1zm94p4.txt ./txt/cord-319822-h1zm94p4.txt