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Airborne, explained

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What do we mean when we say “airborne?”; plus, the most important unanswered questions about how coronavirus is transmitted. FEATURING Roxanne Khamsi @rkhamsi Brian Resnick @B_resnick LINKS They Say Coronavirus Isn't Airborne—but It's Definitely Borne By Air The 9 most important unanswered questions about Covid-19 Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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works best for details. Results may vary. When I think of the word airborne, I think of the 1995 movie outbreak.

0:41.2

We're a deep shit building, the virus is aerosolized. a that they're dealing with has mutated and suddenly gone.

0:53.1

It's grown airborne.

0:54.2

Airborn.

0:55.2

What?

0:56.2

It spreads like the flu.

0:56.7

You got 19 dead, you got hundreds more infected, and it's spreading like a brush fire.

1:00.3

You got to isolate the sick, and I mean, really isolate them, Billy Billy. We gotta get everybody else back into the houses. We gotta keep on there.

1:06.0

And maybe because of that movie, the idea of any virus being airborne scares the shit out of me.

1:14.7

But that's just a movie.

1:16.4

It's not real life.

1:18.1

This pandemic, though, that's real.

1:21.3

And the question of whether or not this coronavirus is airborne, well, it's more complicated

1:28.0

than you probably think. The word airborne, it means something different to different people and it means something different

1:34.5

to different types of scientists.

1:37.0

So how does that work?

1:38.7

And what does that mean for transmission? Today on the show, we have some major unanswered questions about how this

1:47.0

coronavirus moves from one person to another. Starting with the word airborne.

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