{"id":116176,"date":"2020-11-22T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/covid-19-researchers-identify-features-of-a-virus-super-spreader"},"modified":"2020-11-22T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:47:19","slug":"covid-19-researchers-identify-features-of-a-virus-super-spreader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/covid-19-researchers-identify-features-of-a-virus-super-spreader","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Researchers Identify Features of a Virus Super-Spreader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-researchers-identify-features-of-a-virus-super-spreader.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sneezes from people who have congested noses and a full set of teeth travel about 60% farther than from people who don\u2019t, according to a new study.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Central Florida has identified physiological features that could make people super-spreaders of viruses such as COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In a study appearing this month in the journal <em>Physics of Fluids<\/em>, researchers in UCF\u2019s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering used computer-generated models to numerically simulate sneezes in different types of people and determine associations between people\u2019s physiological features and how far their sneeze droplets travel and linger in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sneezes from people who have congested noses and a full set of teeth travel about 60% farther than from people who don\u2019t, according to a new study. New research from the University of Central Florida has identified physiological features that could make people super-spreaders of viruses such as COVID-19. In a study appearing this month [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}