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Letter to the Editor
Shedding light on the restart
Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics
Vol. 77p18–20Published online: August 5, 2020
- Franco Fusi
- Giovanni Romano
Cited in Scopus: 2
According to Shaman and Kohn [1] there are four ways for viral infection transmission: (i) through direct physical contact with an infected individual; (ii) via intermediate objects; (iii) via droplets expelled from infected individuals (e.g., by sneezing or coughing) that deposit on nasal or oral mucosa of a susceptible individual; (iv) via expelled particles <2.5 µm in radius (droplet nuclei) that remain suspended in air as aerosols for extended periods of time. On the same subject, the World Health Organization has recently released a commentary [2].