In January, at a
restaurant in
Guangzhou, China, one
diner infected with the
novel coronavirus but
not yet feeling sick,
appeared to have
spread the disease to
nine other people. One
of the restaurant’s air-
conditioners apparently
blew the virus particles
around the dining room.
There were 73 other
diners who ate that day
on the same floor of the
five-story restaurant,
and the good news is
they did not become
sick. Neither did the
eight employees who
were working on the
floor at the time.
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Chinese researchers
described the incident in
a paper that is to be
published in the July
issue of the Emerging
Infectious Diseases, a
journal published by the
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
The field study has
limitations. The
researchers, for
example, did not
perform experiments to
simulate the airborne
transmission.