SARS-CoV-2 — severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 — is the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). The paper was posted on the medrxiv.org website, where most cutting-edge research during the pandemic has first been made public. “It is actually fairly difficult” to collect the samples, Joshua Santarpia, an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center told Agence France-Presse. For Santarpia, this represents proof that microdroplets, which also travel much greater distances than big droplets, are capable of infecting people. Later, scientists began to change their mind and acknowledge it may be a possibility, which is the rationale for universal masking.

Source: Manila Times July 23, 2020 16:48 UTC