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Coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets – here's the science of infectious aerosols

  • Written by Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets – here's the science of infectious aerosolsFrom your lungs into the air around you, aerosols carry coronavirus. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images

During the 1970s when I was growing up in Southern California, the air was so polluted that I was regularly sent home from high school to “shelter in place.” There might not seem to be much in common between staying home...

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