id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-344266-ug2uew71 Crema, E. The SARS-COV-2 outbreak around the Amazon rainforest: the relevance of the airborne transmission 2020-08-07 .txt text/plain 3951 215 54 Currently, this phenomenon has gained tragic relevance due to the uncontrolled dispersion of the Covid-19 throughout the planet, since airborne transmission is one of the forms of viral contamination, as well as the direct reception of drops exhaled by a contaminated person and the contact with infected surfaces. A relevant study issued in the journal Nature revealed the existence of the RNA of the SARS-COV-2 in aerosols collected from the air of several closed environments and open places of two hospitals in Wuhan dedicated only to patients infected with Covid-19 (12) . This indication is based only on old studies about the direct transmission by larger drops, dangerously ignoring the contamination by the virus airborne in droplets that remain suspended in the air for several hours, and even days after the environment has been visited by an infected person. ./cache/cord-344266-ug2uew71.txt ./txt/cord-344266-ug2uew71.txt