{"id":4077,"date":"2020-02-06T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T23:56:38","slug":"nonpharmaceutical-measures-for-pandemic-influenza-in-nonhealthcare-settings-personal-protective-and-environmental-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/06\/nonpharmaceutical-measures-for-pandemic-influenza-in-nonhealthcare-settings-personal-protective-and-environmental-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonpharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza in nonhealthcare settings\u2014personal protective and environmental measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Personal protective measures assessed were hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, and face masks. Environmental hygiene measure assessed was surface and object cleaning with viral disinfectants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While hypothetically promising, in practice, none of the personal protection measures (as used by the general public) appeared to affect influenza spread. Hand hygiene was noted as still effective for other infectious diseases, and has few negative consequences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with hand hygiene, surface and object cleaning did not appear to, in practice, affect transmission of influenza, though its utility in controlling spread of other agents was noted.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xiao J et al. (Feb 6, 2020). Nonpharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza in nonhealthcare settings\u2014personal protective and environmental measures. Emerg Infect Dis. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2605.190994<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal protective measures assessed were hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, and face masks. Environmental hygiene measure assessed was surface and object cleaning with viral disinfectants. While hypothetically promising, in practice, none of the personal protection measures (as used by the general public) appeared to affect influenza spread. Hand hygiene was noted as still effective for other&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/06\/nonpharmaceutical-measures-for-pandemic-influenza-in-nonhealthcare-settings-personal-protective-and-environmental-measures\/\">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":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","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=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}