  Health experts have suggested that social distancing measures are one of the
most effective ways of preventing the spread of Covid-19. Research primarily
focused on large Covid filled droplets suggested that these droplets can move
further than regulated social distancing guidelines (2 meters apart) in the
presence of wind. This project aims to model the paths of smaller Covid virions
that last longer in the air to see if they also move beyond social distancing
norms in the presence of wind. By numerically solving a 2-dimensional Langevin
equation for 3000 particles and modeling wind as one-dimensional and steady,
velocities were found that translated into particles' positions. With wind,
infectious doses of virions appeared to travel farther and faster, increasing
the risk of infection before dispersion. The two-dimensional model given
implies that social distancing norms are reasonable in cases with no wind, yet
not conservative enough when there is wind.
