key: cord-0967956-6fy2sitr
authors: Wang, Juan; Du, Guoqiang
title: COVID-19 may transmit through aerosol
date: 2020-03-24
journal: Ir J Med Sci
DOI: 10.1007/s11845-020-02218-2
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doc_id: 967956
cord_uid: 6fy2sitr

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Mongolia, announced that the fourth confirmed case lived upstairs of the first confirmed case, who went up and down the building several times by passing by the door of the first confirmed case, of whom the door was often opened and there was some domestic garbage beside the door [6] . Moreover, four clinical laboratory technicians in the Department of Clinical Laboratory of Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, were infected with COVID-19, of whom had no contact with the confirmed cases [7]. How did they get infected? One possibility is that the patients' blood samples are exposed to the air to form aerosols, and the viruses in the aerosols are transmitted to the four technicians. All in all, COVID-19 may transmit through aerosol directly, but it needs to be further verified by experiments. If the aerosols can spread COVID-19, prevention and control will be much more difficult.

Authors' contributions JW and GD wrote the initial draft of the manuscript. GD conceived the manuscript. All authors critically reviewed the manuscript and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethics approval This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

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