Airborne Transmission. Can Breathing and Talking Transmit COVID-19?

Recently we are learning that COVID-19 may be transmitted through the air. That means breathing and talking could transmit the Coronavirus. This is a scary thought. The NICU Doc will go through recent evidence that shows this could be true for mother's infecting babies soon after birth.
And watch all the way until the end, where I will talk about the ONE study that may actually proof there is transmission through the placenta.

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[kathys]

Excellent information and understandable for the layperson regarding airborne & contact transmission. FYI, my dad is in a long term facility; his roommate contracted Covid-19 and died. My dad has no spleen (immunocomprised), diabetic, history of cancers and has been negative for Covid-19...interesting since they shared same sink/bathroom and air (often they closed the door at night). I agree Covid-19 is air and contact transmission but this would be an outlier. Great job!