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. 2020 Sep 18:ciaa1241. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1241

Droplets and Aerosols generated by singing and the risk of COVID-19 for choirs

Prateek Bahl 1,, Charitha de Silva 1, Shovon Bhattacharjee 2, Haley Stone 3, Con Doolan 1, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai 3, C Raina MacIntyre 2
PMCID: PMC7543379  PMID: 32945338

Abstract

Choral singing has become a major risk during COVID-19 pandemic due to high infection rates. Our visualisation and velocimetry results reveal that majority of droplets expelled during singing follow the ambient airflow pattern. These results points toward the possibility of COVID-19 spread by small airborne droplets during singing.


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