Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/7838988/droplet-aerosol-airborne-how-covid-19-spreads/

Conflicting messages from public health authorities and experts have fuelled a great deal of confusion and debate over COVID-19, particularly regarding its transmission.
The terms “droplet,” “aerosol” and “airborne” are used when trying to explain how viruses are spread.
For more than a year, health officials and experts have said COVID-19, a respiratory virus, is spread via droplets.