US CDC Acknowledges Covid Is Airborne, Says Virus Can Spread Beyond 6 Feet Through Aerosolised Particles
Millennium Post Delhi|May 10, 2021
Revising its public guidelines on Covid, CDC has modified the listed modes of virus transmission
US CDC Acknowledges Covid Is Airborne, Says Virus Can Spread Beyond 6 Feet Through Aerosolised Particles

WASHINGTON: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the principal mode by which people are infected with COVID-19 is through very fine droplets and aerosolised particles released during respiration.

The top US medical body said, “Inhalation of air carrying very small fine droplets and aerosol particles that contain infectious virus. Risk of transmission is greatest within three to six feet of an infectious source where the concentration of these very fine droplets and particles is greatest.”

It however also warned that airborne virus can be transmitted even if the infectious source is farther than six feet in certain conditions, largely indoors.

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