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cord-309200-t2xugb8l	Asadi, Sima	The coronavirus pandemic and aerosols: Does COVID-19 transmit via expiratory particles?	2020-04-03		.txt	text/plain	2077	108	45	(2005) established that hospitalized patients infected with SARS during the 2003 epidemic emitted viable aerosolized virus into the air. Recent work on influenza (another viral respiratory disease) has established that viable virus can indeed be emitted from an infected individual by breathing or speaking, without coughing or sneezing (Yan et al. In regard to virology, information is required about the average viral titer in the respiratory fluid and the emitted aerosol particles, as well as the minimum infectious dose for COVID-19 in susceptible individuals. But given the large numbers of expiratory particles known to be emitted during breathing and speech, and given the clearly high transmissibility of COVID-19, a plausible and important hypothesis is that a face-to-face conversation with an asymptomatic infected individual, even if both individuals take care not to touch, might be adequate to transmit Note that the key word in the last sentence was "might." Many urgent questions about aerosol transmission and COVID-19 must be answered.	./cache/cord-309200-t2xugb8l.txt	./txt/cord-309200-t2xugb8l.txt