Indoor transmissionDuque, who was asked to answer Duterte’s curious question, did not categorically answer whether the COVID virus is airborne. Yes, it is ‘airborne’, but…On its website, WHO also said last year that the COVID virus can be transmitted among people in poorly ventilated, crowded indoor settings because it is airborne. This answered Duterte’s question on whether the COVID virus is airborne. “It was a relief to finally use the word ‘airborne’, and to say clearly that airborne transmission and aerosol transmission are synonyms,” said Jose-Luis Jimenez, an aerosol chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder. The statement bearing WHO’s latest tweak on COVID’s transmissibility, according to Lewis, was the clearest statement yet about the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 11, 2022 09:32 UTC