6 feet enough for social distancing? MIT researcher says droplets carrying coronavirus can travel up to 27 feet
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Dr. Paul Pottinger, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said questions remain about the distances at which the virus is effective.
"Usually, within about six feet of leaving somebody’s body, those larger, more infectious droplets
"Usually, within about six feet of leaving somebody’s body, those larger, more infectious droplets
will drop to the ground. That’s where the six-foot rule comes from.”
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“If you think about it, if this really traveled very efficiently by air, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Everybody would know it’s true because everybody would be infected. If it was a 27-foot
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“If you think about it, if this really traveled very efficiently by air, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Everybody would know it’s true because everybody would be infected. If it was a 27-foot
radius that was a high risk to somebody, this would be a totally different conversation. It’s not.”
