How media spread fake information! In this case it is Stat News owned by Boston Globe Media. The headline is a lie aimed to scare people! This is lousy journalism!
The underlying research study published in the prestigous New England Journal of Medicine does not say that!!!!
Excerpt from the paper's abstract: "Aerosols and droplets generated during speech have been implicated in the person-to-person transmission of viruses ... The act of speaking generates oral fluid droplets that vary widely in size,1 and these droplets can harbor infectious virus particles. Whereas large droplets fall quickly to the ground, small droplets can dehydrate and linger as “droplet nuclei” in the air, where they behave like an aerosol and thereby expand the spatial extent of emitted infectious particles.2 We report the results of a laser light-scattering experiment in which speech-generated droplets and their trajectories were visualized."
The study apparently investigates any pathogenic viruses not just SARS-Cov-2. I bet the common cold or influenza is spread the same way!
Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests - STAT: The new study suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the cause of Covid-19, can be transmitted from one person to another simply by speaking.
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