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Tree pollen has the ability to carry coronavirus particles and may have assisted in the transmission of the virus, especially during the first wave of the pandemic, a new study finds.
Researchers at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus built a model to simulate how different airborne particles could contribute to the spread of virus.
They found a correlation between COVID-19 infection rates and concentration of pollen.
What's more, with a light breeze on a typical spring day in the U.S., the pollen could pass through the crowd standing 65 away from a tree in less than one minute,
Researchers set up a simulation to predict how pollen carrying COVID-19 particles could assist in carrying the virus from person to person
'To our knowledge, this is the first time we show through modeling and simulation how airborne pollen micrograins are transported in a light breeze, contributing to airborne virus transmission in crowds outdoors,' said co-lead author Dr Dimitris Drikakis, a professor at the University of Nicosia.
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