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
From your lungs into the air around you, aerosols carry coronavirus. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty ImagesDuring 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...