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A fact from Respiratory droplet appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that surgical masks provide effective protection against diseases spread by respiratory droplets (examples pictured), but not those spread by airborne transmission?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:21, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Respiratory droplets from a sneeze

... that surgical masks provide protection against diseases spread by respiratory droplets (pictured), but not those spread by airborne transmission? Source: [1] [2]

Reviewed: 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Maharashtra

5x expanded by John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk). Self-nominated at 02:58, 1 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough (expanded from redirect March 31), long enough (5,397 characters), well-cited throughout to reputable sources, neutral, and free from troubling close para/copyvio issues (the one source with more than seven or eight words appearing in the article is from a PD FDA source). Hook is 134 characters, definitely both timely and interesting and useful, and cited to and in ref 12. QPQ done and no image (although the sneezing one from the article is pretty expressive and could definitely be used). Good to go! —Collin^{t c} 22:59, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea—I've added the photo. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 23:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Image is good to go and an FP to boot! —Collin^{t c} 20:53, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article has a few "citation needed" tags. Yoninah (talk) 16:07, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): —Collin^{t c} 21:44, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bobamnertiopsis and Yoninah: Fixed. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:20, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Restoring tick per Collins' review. Yoninah (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(Respiratory?) Droplet

[3] Do flushing toilets, wet‐cleaning surfaces, showering or using tap water, or spraying graywater actually cause respiratory droplets? Or just "droplet"? --Horus (talk) 08:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why nobody advices to cough to ground direction?

Droplet spread without source control: up to ~8 meters (26 ft) for sneezes and coughs, up to ~2 meters (6.6 ft) for talking. For a masked person, these distances are reduced.

What if one squats and coughs down, so that the droplets hit the ground? Then coughing would be much safer?

--91.159.184.216 (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]