Can We Diminish Spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Can We Diminish Spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic?作者机构：Department of Mechanical Engineering Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa Israel Retired from HSPH Harvard University Boston MA USA Currently Tsuda Lung Research Shrewsbury MA USA
出 版 物：《Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering》 (生物医学工程（英文）)
年 卷 期：2021年第14卷第1期
页 面：11-13页
学科分类：1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学]
主 题：Bioaerosols Surfactants Lung Airways
摘 要：We hypothesized that liquid menisci occlusions may form inside small airways, travel along the airway while losing mass and finally may disintegrate into bioaerosols. Spreading of the COVID-19 virus is strongly related to the number of such bioaerosols exhaled by “super-spreaders. We show, employing numerical methods, that this number can be diminished by administering surfactants which lower the surface-tension of the mucus which covers the airways.
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