• Song Tang, Yixin Mao, Rachael M Jones, Qiyue Tan, John S Ji, Na Li, Jin Shen, Yuebin Lv, Lijun Pan, Pei Ding, Xiaochen Wang, Youbin Wang, C Raina MacIntyre, and Xiaoming Shi.
• China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100021, China; Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China.
• Environ Int. 2020 Nov 1; 144: 106039.

AbstractAs public health teams respond to the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), containment and understanding of the modes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission is of utmost importance for policy making. During this time, governmental agencies have been instructing the community on handwashing and physical distancing measures. However, there is no agreement on the role of aerosol transmission for SARS-CoV-2. To this end, we aimed to review the evidence of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Several studies support that aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is plausible, and the plausibility score (weight of combined evidence) is 8 out of 9. Precautionary control strategies should consider aerosol transmission for effective mitigation of SARS-CoV-2.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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