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ArticleAerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research2020

The coronavirus pandemic and aerosols: Does COVID-19 transmit via expiratory particles?

Sima Asadi, Nicole Bouvier, Anthony S Wexler, William D Ristenpart

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Article in Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 278 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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278citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

278 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sima AsadiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Davis College of Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Nicole BouvierDepartments of Medicine and Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Anthony S WexlerMechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA.
William D RistenpartDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Davis College of Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA.

Funding

Quantifying Environmental Variables Affecting Airborne Influenza TransmissionR01AI110703 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BOUVIER, NICOLE M. · 2015 to 2019
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110703
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID32308568
PMCPMC7157964

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