Aerosol emissions from wind instruments: effects of performer age, sex, sound pressure level, and bell covers

Abstract Aerosol emissions from wind instruments are a suspected route of transmission for airborne infectious diseases, such as SARS-CoV-2. We evaluated aerosol number emissions (from 0.25 to 35.15 μm) from 81 volunteer performers of both sexes and varied age (12 to 63 years) while playing wind ins...

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Published in:	Scientific Reports
Main Authors:	John Volckens, Kristen M. Good, Dan Goble, Nicholas Good, Joshua P. Keller, Amy Keisling, Christian L’Orange, Emily Morton, Rebecca Phillips, Ky Tanner
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15530-x