ArticleHeliyon2023
Exposure to airborne SARS-CoV-2 in four hospital wards and ICUs of Cyprus. A detailed study accounting for day-to-day operations and aerosol generating procedures.
Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Abstract
In any infectious disease, understanding the modes of transmission is key to selecting effective public health measures. In the case of COVID-19 spread, the strictness of the imposed measures outlined the lack of understanding on how SARS-CoV-2 transmits, particularly via airborne pathways. With the aim to characterize the transmission dynamics of airborne SARS-CoV-2, 165 and 62 air and environmental samples, respectively, were collected in four COVID-19 wards and ICUs in Cyprus and analyzed by RT-PCR. An alternative method for SARS-CoV-2 detection in air that provides comparable results but is less cumbersome and time demanding, is also proposed. Considering that all clinics employed 14 regenerations per hour of full fresh air inside patient rooms, it was hypothesized that the viral levels and the frequency of positive samples would be minimum outside of the rooms. However, it is shown that leaving the door opened in patient rooms hinders the efficiency of the ventilation system applied, allowing the virus to escape. As a result, the highest observed viral levels (135 copies m
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