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Malashenko, A., Tsuda, A. and Haber, S. (2009) Propagation and Breakup of Liquid Menisci and Aerosol Generation in Small Airways. Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery, 22, 341-353.
https://doi.org/10.1089/jamp.2008.0696

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• TITLE: Can We Diminish Spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

  AUTHORS: S. Haber, A. Tsuda

  KEYWORDS: Bioaerosols, Surfactants, Lung Airways

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Vol.14 No.1, January 26, 2021

  ABSTRACT: 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.