If the novel coronavirus can float in the air as a vapor, earlier assumptions of its range are inadequate. Airborne transmission is still not conclusively proven, but a growing number of experts see persuasive evidence in super-spreading events that have transmitted the virus to people scores of feet away from the infection source. At a well-publicized choir practice in March in Washington State, where a singer spread the coronavirus to 52 people, the infection reached a person 45 feet away. Some countries in Europe set social distances at 1.5 meters, almost five feet; others at two meters, or six-and-a-half feet. The agency has since cited “emerging evidence” of airborne transmission.

Source: Washington Post August 27, 2020 16:48 UTC