Saikat Basu said he and Brittany used three squirts of a spray device in each nostril as a second line of defense against COVID-19 in addition to the use of masks and other personal protective equipment.
Funding from the National Science Foundation helped Saikat Basu with his research project. He developed a model that uses breathing rates to track which droplet sizes are likely to reach the upper part of the throat behind the nasal passages, above the esophagus and voice box. This area is known as