Author(s)

S. Haber¹, A. Tsuda^2,3

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
²Retired from HSPH, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
³Currently Tsuda Lung Research, Shrewsbury, MA, USA.

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.

Bioaerosols, Surfactants, Lung Airways

Haber, S. and Tsuda, A. (2021) Can We Diminish Spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic?. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 14, 11-13. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2021.141002.