The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on health care and including how healthcare staff deliver and admit newborn infants to neonatal intensive care units and care for them during interhospital transfers. Hospitals have established quarantine zones and provided personal protection equipment and viral filters for use during invasive and noninvasive ventilation. The virus that causes COVID-19 transmits via droplets and can remain viable in aerosols for three hours (1).
Aerosol generation by respiratory support of neonates may be low