COVID positive? Do not recite ‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers’ in public – Haaretz.com

Say it, don’t spray it! Good luck with that. When we breathe, we emit particle-laden air flows, let alone when we speak, sing and exercise. Perfectly asymptomatic carriers of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can shed viruses and infect others just by being in proximity. Now a new study has demonstrated that the distance emitted droplets travel depends not only on air circulation and distance but on the sounds we’re producing.
Depending on environmental conditions, the much-vaunted 2-meter distance is…

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