Howard A. Stone: Fluid Dynamics of Speech and COVID-19 Transmission (Dean's Seminar Series)

Speech is a potent route for viral transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed mitigation strategies are difficult to develop since the relationship of speech to the exhaled flow has not been documented, nor has the aerosolization mechanism in the oral cavity been visualized. Princeton University’s Howard A. Stone documented the spatio-temporal structure of the expelled air flow and detailed how drops form using high-speed imaging.