PROFESSOR: So welcome to our Massive Open Online Course,
10.S95x, Physics of COVID-19 Transmission.
The course is organized into five chapters. First,
transfer of respiratory pathogens,
where we will learn about how viral and bacterial diseases
are transmitted through the air through aerosol and other types
of droplets.
In the next chapter, part two, we
will study airborne transmission in a well-mixed room.
We'll analyze the fluid mechanics
of droplet transfer between individuals breathing
the same air in a room.
And then in the next chapter, we will describe basic models
in the field of epidemiology to describe the spread
and transfer of disease.
In the next chapter, 4, we will integrate the disease modeling
with airborne transmission to arrive at a safety guideline
to limit the indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19.
And we will apply it to COVID-19 through analysis
of various spreading events.
And then finally, in Chapter 5, we
will go beyond the well-mixed room
to discuss the fluid mechanics of ventilation
and thermal flows and respiratory flows
and understand the limitations and extensions
of the analysis leading to the safety guideline.