COVID-19, particularly regarding its transmission.The terms “droplet,” “aerosol” and “airborne” are used when trying to explain how viruses are spread.For more than a year, health officials and experts have said COVID-19, a respiratory virus, is spread via droplets.Droplets are large mucus or saliva particles heavier than air that fall toward the ground and droplet transmission typically occurs when a droplet containing a virus comes in contact with another person’s eyes, nose or mouth.“By far, COVID-19 is spread through droplet transmission,” Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer Dr.