RES.10-S95 | Fall 2020 | Undergraduate

Physics of COVID-19 Transmission

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Video 2-2: Airborne Disease Transmission in a Well-Mixed Room—Airborne Transmission Rate

Formula for the transmission rate, defined as the number of infection quanta transmitted per unit time. Formula for the steady-state transmission rate in a well-mixed room. The infectivity of a SARS-CoV-2 virion is estimated to be possibly more than 10%.

Speaker: Professor Martin Z. Bazant

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