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New research conducted by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania indicates the coronavirus could remain in the air for more than eight minutes after talking.
Wednesday the study was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
The study found that talking loudly for one minute in a confined space could generate at least one thousand speech droplets.
And if someone were to inhale them it could potentially trigger new infections.
Researchers tested this by having a person repeat the phrase “stay healthy” in a closed air environment.
They observed how long it took large droplets to shrink as they partially evaporated and hung in the air.
Posted – 5.14.20