On Aug. 26, 2021, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) announced findings on airborne transmission have passed scientific peer review and been accepted for publication by Natureﾒs Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

UNMC was first to report the presence of intact, culturable SARS-CoV-2 virus in small particles exhaled by COVID-19 patients in a Jul. 2020 preprint report of initial data gathered at Nebraska Medicine.