P. Jacob Bueno de Mesquita

TL;DR: It is shown that sneezing is rare and not important for—and that coughing is not required for—influenza virus aerosolization, and that upper and lower airway infection are independent and that fine-particle exhaled aerosols reflect infection in the lung.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of masks and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on aerosol shedding and found that masks reduced viral RNA by 48% (95% confidence interval [CI], 3 to 72%) in fine and by 77%(95% CI, 51 to 89%) in coarse aerosols; cloth and surgical masks were not significantly different.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of masks and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on aerosol shedding in 49 seronegative cases, with and without masks, at up to two visits two days apart.

TL;DR: Human challenge-transmission studies with intranasal challenge with influenza A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2) and thereafter, suggesting a possible role for aerosols.

TL;DR: In this paper, mobile phones are among the most highly touched personal objects and mobile phone influenza contamination was positively associated with upper-respiratory viral load and negatively associated with age.