{"id":1368,"date":"2020-10-06T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:08:04","slug":"testing-mobile-air-purifiers-in-a-school-classroom-reducing-the-airborne-transmission-risk-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/06\/testing-mobile-air-purifiers-in-a-school-classroom-reducing-the-airborne-transmission-risk-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Mobile Air Purifiers in a School Classroom Reducing the Airborne Transmission Risk for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Four mobile air purifiers with HEPA filters in a regular high school classroom were able to reduce the concentration of aerosols by more than 90% within less than 30 minutes compared to a neighboring classroom without purifiers. The authors further estimate that the inhaled dose via airborne transmission from staying in the room with a super-infectious person for two hours is reduced by a factor of 6 by the air exchange rate when using the purifiers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Curtius et al. (Oct 5, 2020). Testing Mobile Air Purifiers in a School Classroom Reducing the Airborne Transmission Risk for SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded Oct 6 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.02.20205633\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.02.20205633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Four mobile air purifiers with HEPA filters in a regular high school classroom were able to reduce the concentration of aerosols by more than 90% within less than 30 minutes compared to a neighboring classroom without purifiers. The authors further estimate that the inhaled dose via airborne transmission from staying in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/06\/testing-mobile-air-purifiers-in-a-school-classroom-reducing-the-airborne-transmission-risk-for-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78,35],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-air-purification","tag-schools","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}