Source: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/covid-19-is-airborne-why-is-this-so-controversial-1.5743949

It was mid-December when some of Ontario’s top doctors publicly told reporters that COVID-19 is airborne.
For nearly two years public health officials in Canada have shied away from using that term to describe how the novel coronavirus is spread. Instead, the focus has been on preventing the spread of the virus via droplets.