Read more about Some degree of coronavirus transmission through air likely: Anthony Fauci on Business Standard. Fauci on Thursday had said it was a « reasonable assumption » that airborne transmission was occurring even though there was not a lot of solid evidence behind it
The new is likely spreading through the air to some degree, the top US infectious disease official said on Friday, one day after the World Health Organization urged further studies on the ways the virus is transmitted.
« Still some question about aerosol but likely some degree of aerosol, » Anthony Fauci, the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said by video during a panel session at a Covid-19 conference organized by the International AIDS Society.
