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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2022

Practical Indicators for Risk of Airborne Transmission in Shared Indoor Environments and Their Application to COVID-19 Outbreaks.

Z Peng, A L Pineda Rojas, E Kropff, W Bahnfleth, G Buonanno, S J Dancer, J Kurnitski, Y Li, M G L C Loomans, L C Marr and 12 more

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 81 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Z PengDept. of Chemistry and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6823-452X
A L Pineda RojasCIMA, UMI-IFAECI/CNRS, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires─UBA/CONICET, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina.
E KropffLeloir Institute─IIBBA/CONICET, CBA, Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
W BahnflethDept. of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.
G BuonannoDept. of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino 03043, Italy.
S J DancerDept. of Microbiology, NHS Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Scotland G75 8RG, U.K.
J KurnitskiREHVA Technology and Research Committee, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia.
Y LiDept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
M G L C LoomansDept. of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5612 AZ, The Netherlands.
L C MarrDept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3628-6891
L MorawskaInternational Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0594-9683
W NazaroffDept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5645-3357
C NoakesSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
X QuerolInstitute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, IDAEA, Spanish Research Council, CSIC, Barcelona 08034, Spain.
C SekharDept. of the Built Environment, National University of Singapore , 117566 Singapore.
R TellierDept. of Medicine, McGill University and McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Québec H4A 3J1, Canada.
T GreenhalghNuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, U.K.
L BourouibaThe Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
A BoerstraREHVA (Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations), BBA Binnenmilieu, The Hague 2501 CJ, The Netherlands.
J W TangDept. of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
S L MillerDept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1967-7551
J L JimenezDept. of Chemistry and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6203-1847

Funding

Wellcome Trust 104830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some infectious diseases, including COVID-19, can undergo airborne transmission. This may happen at close proximity, but as time indoors increases, infections can occur in shared room air despite distancing. We propose two indicators of infection risk for this situation, that is, relative risk parameter (

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Air Pollution, IndoorCOVID-19AerosolsDisease OutbreaksHumansSARS-CoV-2VentilationAerosolsairborne transmissionCOVID-19indoor airmitigationoutbreaksrisk assessment

Identifiers

PMID34985868
PMCPMC7617205

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