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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
No problem---
Droplet and Airborne/Aerosol are different-----airborne does not need "droplets" to spread. Here's a good explanation from the Univ. Of Penn.:
"At issue is the constantly shifting interpretation of droplet size with reference to SARS-CoV-2.
Traditionally, droplets are defined as large (>5 microns) aqueous bodies. However, airborne (or aerosolized) transmission of the virus has been proposed as a source of infection almost since the inception of the COVID pandemic.
By comparison to droplets, aerosolized particles are infinitesimal. Size alone is not the only important distinction: Droplets fall to earth quickly, but aerosols can travel on air currents potentially for hours. Thus aerosolized viruses are likely to be much more infectious than viruses bound to respiratory droplets, and much more difficult to avoid."
So far the "proposal" of airborne transmission of COVID has not panned out. But with a large number of unvaccinated people and continuing mutation/variants, that jump to airborne could certainly be coming.
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Thank you for clarifying. I knew from the videos that in order to NOT drop down quickly that the CV had to hitchhike on droplets of some visible size. I was close, but maybe........no cigar!