Is the coronavirus an airborne pathogen or not?
While Japan and many other countries have shaped their policies based on the premise that the virus can be transmitted by heavy droplets at close range, questions remain over how far those droplets can travel to infect others and whether or not smaller, more mobile droplets can spread the virus.
Nearly two years since the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Wuhan, China, there is a growing consensus among the world's scientists that the virus that causes the deadly disease is more airborne than many originally thought.
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