ArticleBuilding and environment2021
Aerosols from speaking can linger in the air for up to nine hours.
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- Integrated system of exhaust air heat pump and advanced air distribution for energy-efficient provision of outdoor air.Applied thermal engineering · 2022Article
- Close contact behavior-based COVID-19 transmission and interventions in a subway system.Journal of hazardous materials · 2022Article
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- The effect of increasing indoor ventilation on artificially generated aerosol particle counts.PloS one · 2021Article
- Reliability and Validity of General Health Questionnaire-12 in Chinese Dental Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Airborne transmission of respiratory diseases has been under intense spotlight in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) where continued resurgence is linked to the relaxation of social interaction measures. To understand the role of speech aerosols in the spread of COVID-19 globally, the lifetime and size distribution of the aerosols are studied through a combination of light scattering observation and aerosol sampling. It was found that aerosols from speaking suspended in stagnant air for up to 9 h with a half-life of 87.2 min. The half-life of the aerosols declined with the increase in air change per hour from 28 to 40 min (1 h
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