UH public health expert explains COVID-19 transmission and mitigation

A video explaining the transmission and mitigation of COVID-19, produced by Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency (HIEMA), features Thomas Lee, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies in the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, and lead modeler and forecaster for HIEMA.

Lee described the three types of transmission of COVID-19 and how to best reduce the spread of the virus. The types of transmission are droplets, aerosolized and fomite, which means surface.

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