ArticleEnvironment international2020
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality.
Article in Environment international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04398043 (Searching for SARS-CoV 2 in Personal Protective Equipment in Physicians in a University Hospital), which is not on this map. Cited by 703 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Searching for SARS-CoV 2 in Personal Protective Equipment in Physicians in a University Hospital
Who cites it
703 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Indoor air quality and airborne transmission under the One Health lens: A scoping review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- The Real-Time Estimation of Respiratory Flow and Mask Leakage in a PAPR Using a Single Differential-Pressure Sensor and Microcontroller-Based Smartphone Interface in the Development of a Public-Oriented Powered Air-Purifying Respirator as an Alternative to Lockdown Measures.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Predictive algorithm for COVID-19 infection risk in indoor environments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Global COVID-19 Pandemic Experience: Innovation Through Environmental Assessment and Seropositivity Surveillance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- A Virus Aerosol Chamber Study: The Impact of UVA, UVC, and HEnvironment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Hand washing and maintaining social distance are the main measures recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to avoid contracting COVID-19. Unfortunately, these measured do not prevent infection by inhalation of small droplets exhaled by an infected person that can travel distance of meters or tens of meters in the air and carry their viral content. Science explains the mechanisms of such transport and there is evidence that this is a significant route of infection in indoor environments. Despite this, no countries or authorities consider airborne spread of COVID-19 in their regulations to prevent infections transmission indoors. It is therefore extremely important, that the national authorities acknowledge the reality that the virus spreads through air, and recommend that adequate control measures be implemented to prevent further spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in particularly removal of the virus-laden droplets from indoor air by ventilation.
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