{"id":10256,"date":"2021-06-08T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10256"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:13:51","slug":"portable-hepa-purifiers-to-eliminate-airborne-sars-cov-2-a-systematic-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/08\/portable-hepa-purifiers-to-eliminate-airborne-sars-cov-2-a-systematic-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable HEPA Purifiers to Eliminate Airborne SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A systematic review of 11 studies found that portable HEPA purifiers were able to significantly reduce airborne SARS-CoV-2-surrogate particles. Experimental parameters varied considerably, including room sizes varying from 14.75 to 108 m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and surrogate particle size from 0.012um to &lt;1mm. Overall, HEPA filter-based personal air cleaners were overall the most efficient in removing surrogate particles compared to other filters, although one study concluded that efficient but non-HEPA filters can offer similar efficiency.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liu et al.\u00a0(June 8, 2021). Portable HEPA Purifiers to Eliminate Airborne SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review. Otolaryngology\u2013Head and Neck Surgery. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/01945998211022636\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/01945998211022636<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review of 11 studies found that portable HEPA purifiers were able to significantly reduce airborne SARS-CoV-2-surrogate particles. Experimental parameters varied considerably, including room sizes varying from 14.75 to 108 m3, and surrogate particle size from 0.012um to &lt;1mm. Overall, HEPA filter-based personal air cleaners were overall the most efficient in removing surrogate particles&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/08\/portable-hepa-purifiers-to-eliminate-airborne-sars-cov-2-a-systematic-review\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-10256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-air-purification","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}