Coronavirus found in air samples up to 13 feet from patients, says study COVID19
WASHINGTON - A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet -- twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public.
The researchers, led by a team at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing, tested surface and air samples from an intensive care unit and a general COVID-19 ward at Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan. They housed a total of 24 patients between February 19 and March 2. "Furthermore, half of the samples from the soles of the ICU medical staff shoes tested positive," the team wrote. "Therefore, the soles of medical staff shoes might function as carriers."The team also looked at so-called aerosol transmission -- when the droplets of the virus are so fine they become suspended and remain airborne for several hours, unlike cough or sneeze droplets that fall to the ground within seconds.
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