AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
Modelling the spread of coronavirus in the lungs
Simplifying Complexity
The Effect of Space on the Spread of a Virus in the Lung
The lung has so much space that the spreading virus actually doesn't fill the whole lung with virus. How many of those patches there are in our work says how much virus you're then able to produce in the lung and potentially spread to others. The alternative hypothesis which I think has been ignored sort of still maybe too much in this pandemic is that the virus is aerosolized. So it's more like cigarette smoke in a room, right? It's in tiny little particles. And when you breathe those in through this fractal branching airway, if you take one breath in, that breath goes to the first tube and then it divides into the next two as well.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode