The DOI matches its Crossref record; 5 of the 5 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Abstract
There is overwhelming evidence that inhalation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) represents a major transmission route for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is an urgent need to harmonize discussions about modes of virus transmission across disciplines to ensure the most effective control strategies and provide clear and consistent guidance to the public. To do so, we must clarify the terminology to distinguish between aerosols and droplets using a size threshold of 100 µm, not the historical 5 µm (1). This size more effectively separates their aerodynamic behavior, ability to be inhaled, and efficacy of interventions.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?
Morawska, L., Tang, J. W., Bahnfleth, W., Bluyssen, P. M., Boerstra, A., Buonanno, G., Cao, J., Dancer, S., Floto, A., Franchimon, F., et al. (2020) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2020.105832 · Cited by 1,343
Self-citationReducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Prather, K. A., Wang, C. C., & Schooley, R. T. (2020) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abc6197 · Cited by 850
Self-citationMiller, S. L., Nazaroff, W. W., Jimenez, J. L., Boerstra, A., Buonanno, G., Dancer, S. J., Kurnitski, J., Marr, L. C., Morawska, L., & Noakes, C. (2021) · Indoor Air · doi:10.1111/ina.12751 · Cited by 734
Self-citationShort-range airborne route dominates exposure of respiratory infection during close contact
Chen, W., Zhang, N., Wei, J., Yen, H.-L., & Li, Y. (2020) · Building and Environment · doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106859 · Cited by 371
Ma, J., Qi, X., Chen, H., Li, X., Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Sun, L., Zhang, L., Guo, J., Morawska, L., et al. (2021) · Clinical Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1283 · Cited by 337
Cited by
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
Wang, C. C., Prather, K. A., Sznitman, J., Jimenez, J. L., Lakdawala, S. S., Tufekci, Z., & Marr, L. C. (2021) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abd9149 · Cited by 1,543
Self-citationTang, J. W., Bahnfleth, W. P., Bluyssen, P. M., Buonanno, G., Jimenez, J. L., Kurnitski, J., Li, Y., Miller, S., Sekhar, C., Morawska, L., et al. (2021) · Journal of Hospital Infection · doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.022 · Cited by 350
Self-citationThe size and culturability of patient-generated SARS-CoV-2 aerosol
Santarpia, J. L., Herrera, V. L., Rivera, D. N., Ratnesar-Shumate, S., Reid, S. P., Ackerman, D. N., Denton, P. W., Martens, J. W. S., Fang, Y., Conoan, N., et al. (2022) · Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology · doi:10.1038/s41370-021-00376-8 · Cited by 196
Long distance airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: rapid systematic review
Duval, D., Palmer, J. C., Tudge, I., Pearce-Smith, N., O’Connell, E., Bennett, A., & Clark, R. (2022) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-068743 · Cited by 120
Masks and Face Coverings for the Lay Public: A Narrative Update
Czypionka, T., Greenhalgh, T., Bassler, D., & Bryant, M. B. (2021) · Annals of Internal Medicine · doi:10.7326/m20-6625 · Cited by 82
Metadata
- Authors
- Prather, K. A., Marr, L. C., Schooley, R. T., McDiarmid, M. A., Wilson, M. E., & Milton, D. K.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2020-10-16
- Volume
- 370
- Issue
- 6514
- Pages
- 303-304
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W3091330819
- Cited by
- 400
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 37.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.abf0521
- The paper
- Prather, K. A., Marr, L. C., Schooley, R. T., McDiarmid, M. A., Wilson, M. E., & Milton, D. K. (2020). Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf0521
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
