Being a loud talker may help people hear you, but it can also help make them deathly ill.<br />According to Business Insider, a mere minute of loud speech can produce over 1,000 coronavirus-containing droplets.<br />A new study has found these droplets can linger in the air for eight-plus minutes, presenting what the authors call a "likely mode of disease transmission."<br />The research also suggests that louder speech produces a higher number of droplets.<br />What's more, those droplets can then remain in the air for eight minutes or longer.<br />The study found that droplets from speech shrink to between 20% and 34% of their original size after they're released into the air.<br />That slows down the speed at which they fall to ground, meaning they can remain in the air for several minutes.
