In case anyone missed it. Shanghai government confirm coronavirus is aerosolized (different than droplets or airborne)
Shanghai officials reveal novel coronavirus transmission modes Confirmed transmission routes of the novel coronavirus include direct transmission, contact transmission and ***aerosol transmission*** a Shanghai official said on Saturday.
https://chinadaily.com.cn/a/202002/08/WS5e3e7d97a310128217275fc3.html
This confirms what a CDC official told the daughter of an American couple on the quarantined Japanese cruise ship.
This also confirms other news reports:
Catching it within 15 seconds near an infected person
The incredibly fast spread on cruise ships
One infected person in a building, they lock the whole building down
Man catching it from infected person one apartment below
Large scale disinfection trucks, now N. Korea doing the same
The high level hazmat suit the people bringing the American expatriates home
The article about the virus being “deep lung” which is why it gets missed in tests of the upper respiratory tracts
The difference between airborne and aerosolized:
Airborne Droplet Droplets (greater than 5 um)
Remain only shortly in air (less than 17 min) [116].
Dispersed over short distances (less than 1 m).
Short range transmission.
Direct inoculation of naïve person through coughing/sneezing/breathing of infected person.
Deposition mainly on mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract.
Aerosol
Aerosols, droplet nuclei (less than 5 um),
Remain in air for an almost infinite amount of time.
Dispersed over long distances (greater than 1 m).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879625717301773
It had to have been weaponized