{"title":"COVID-19 airborne transmission: a new frontier of infection.","authors":"Indrajit Banerjee, Jared Robinson","doi":"10.3126/nje.v11i3.40000","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 has spread around the globe and infections are still rising despite the development of vaccinations and protocols. Various mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have arisen with a greater rate of transmission and increased virulence. New found research has proven that the new strains of the virus are more virulent and use airborne aerosolized transmission to enable long range spread of the virus. \nBy virtue of the fact that the virus spreads through such means, increases the risk of transmission and contamination highly as the virus can be transmitted via long range and through common ventilation and duct systems. In light of this it is now pertinent for legislation to support the use of personal protection equipment to safeguard the health of the public.","PeriodicalId":43600,"journal":{"name":"Nepal Journal of Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8560137/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nepal Journal of Epidemiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v11i3.40000","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2021/9/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
COVID-19 has spread around the globe and infections are still rising despite the development of vaccinations and protocols. Various mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have arisen with a greater rate of transmission and increased virulence. New found research has proven that the new strains of the virus are more virulent and use airborne aerosolized transmission to enable long range spread of the virus.
By virtue of the fact that the virus spreads through such means, increases the risk of transmission and contamination highly as the virus can be transmitted via long range and through common ventilation and duct systems. In light of this it is now pertinent for legislation to support the use of personal protection equipment to safeguard the health of the public.
期刊介绍:
The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology is a international journal that encompasses all aspects of epidemiology. The journal encourages communication among those engaged in the research, teaching, and application of epidemiology of both communicable and non-communicable disease, including research into health services and medical care. Also covered are new methods, epidemiological and statistical, for the analysis of data used by those who practise social and preventive medicine. It provides the most up-to-date, original, well designed, well interpreted and significant information source in the multidisciplinary field of epidemiology. We publish manuscripts based on the following sections: 1.Short communications 2.Current research trends 3.Original research 4.Case reports 5.Review articles 6.Letter to editor