%0 Journal Article
%T Can We Diminish Spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
%A S. Haber
%A A. Tsuda
%J Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering
%P 11-13
%@ 1937-688X
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jbise.2021.141002
%X 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 ˇ°super-spreadersˇ±. 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.
%K Bioaerosols
%K Surfactants
%K Lung Airways
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=106751