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Infectious Diseases | Last Active: 9 hours ago | Replies (12)
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@maria20 I think you can relax and not worry. The cold virus is spread by droplets, and the chance they traveled that far without falling to the ground is miniscule. Even if they traveled into his hose, your neighbor would then have had to touch the contaminated surface then his nose or eyes to get infected.
And you are right to open your windows to clear the air, but there is no way that can impact others from a distance.
I'm sorry you lost your neighbor, but I cannot see any way that you caused his death.
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@sueinmn
I want to ask something else that crossed my mind.
My sister had also symptoms of a cold.
That night that I went out my sister was with me, we were about 4 minutes outside my neighbor's house - 12ft away - and 2 of them inside a car. Since we produced more particles could they travel to his house or the outside air would also dilute them fast?