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A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19
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Significance: Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. By assuming that the respiratory droplets are mixed uniformly through an indoor space, we derive a simple safety guideline for mitigating airborne transmission that would impose an upper bound on the product of the number of occupants and their time spent in a room. Our theoretical model quantifies the extent to which transmission risk is reduced in large rooms with high air exchange rates, increased for more vigorous respiratory activities, and dramatically reduced by the use of face masks. Consideration of a number of outbreaks yields self-consistent estimates for the infectiousness of the new coronavirus.
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- Authors
- Bazant, M. Z., & Bush, J. W. M.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2021-04-13
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 17
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W3111687042
- Cited by
- 477
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 57.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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