Study shows that six-feet social distancing may not be enough

The current social distancing guideline of 6 feet maybe insufficient according to a recent study as saliva droplets can travel 18 feet in five seconds at low wind speeds.

Airborne transmission of viruses, like the virus causing COVID-19, is not well understood, but a good baseline for the study is a deeper understanding of how particles travel through the air when people cough. In a paper published in Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, Talib Dbouk and Dimitris Drikakis discovered that a mild cough occurring in low wind speeds of 4-15 kph can propel saliva droplets 18 feet…