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Published April 10, 2020 | Version v2
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The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance to transmissibility of COVID-19

  • 1. Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health

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A video clip of highly sensitive laser light scattering observations that indicate loud-speaking generates, in addition to hundreds of regular droplets, also many thousands of micro-droplets per second. This movie clip shows the decay of airborne particles.

Note: some parts of the audio of the clip were muted for privacy.

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