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ArticleIndoor air2020

Cool but dangerous: How climate change is increasing the risk of airborne infections.

Edward Nardell, Philip Lederer, Hridesh Mishra, Ruvandhi Nathavitharana, Grant Theron

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Article in Indoor air, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Air conditioning, ventilation, and respiratory virus transmission potential in South India.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2026
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  3. Impact of indoor ventilation on TB transmission risk: implications of climate change.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2025
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  11. UV-LED disinfection of Coronavirus: Wavelength effect.Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Edward NardellDivision of Global Health Equity, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5323-3196
Philip LedererSection of Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Hridesh MishraDivision of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, and South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Ruvandhi NathavitharanaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Grant TheronDivision of Global Health Equity, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Innovative Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Airborne Infection ControlD43TW009379 · FIC · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI NARDELL, EDWARD A. · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
Optimizing Diagnostic Strategies for TB Transmission Control in Health-Care FacilitiesK23AI132648 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI NATHAVITHARANA, RUVANDHI · 2018 to 2022
$945k
NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI132648NIH/FIC 1D43TW009379
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Air MicrobiologyClimate ChangeAir ConditioningAir FiltersDisease Transmission, InfectiousHumansInfluenza, HumanMeaslesTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID32100390
PMCPMC7831375

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