ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020
Electric fans: A potential stay-at-home cooling strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic this summer?
Article in The Science of the total environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Heat Safety in the Workplace: Modified Delphi Consensus to Establish Strategies and Resources to Protect the US Workers.GeoHealth · 2021Article
- The water-energy-food nexus and COVID-19: Towards a systematization of impacts and responses.The Science of the total environment · 2021Article
- Letter to the editor regarding Hospers et al. (2020): Electric fans: A potential stay-at-home cooling strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic this summer?The Science of the total environment · 2021Article
- The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Current public health guidance designed to protect individuals against extreme heat and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is seemingly discordant, yet during the northern hemisphere summer, we are faced with the imminent threat of their simultaneous existence. Here we examine the environmental limits of electric fan-use in the context of the United States summer as a potential stay-at-home cooling strategy that aligns with existing efforts to mitigate the spread of SARS-COV-2.
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