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Can airborne pollen help spread SARS-CoV-2?
Assuming that the virus can hitch a ride on pollen grains, the results suggest that the pollen could carry the virus from one person to others in the crowd.Talib Dbouk, Ph.D., and Dimitris Drikakis, Ph.D., from the university’s Defence and Security Research Institute conducted the study, which has been published in the journal Physics of Fluids.The researchers point out that droplets of saliva are relatively heavy and evaporate rapidly, whereas pollen grains contain little water, are lighter, and can travel tens of kilometers.“People should avoid crowd gatherings close to some types of plants or trees known to be very active in pollen grains release during a pollination season,” Prof. Drikakis told Medical News Today.