{"id":5539,"date":"2021-03-02T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2021-03-02T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:13:33","slug":"reducing-covid-19-airborne-transmission-risks-on-public-transportation-buses-an-empirical-study-on-aerosol-dispersion-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/02\/reducing-covid-19-airborne-transmission-risks-on-public-transportation-buses-an-empirical-study-on-aerosol-dispersion-and-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing COVID-19 Airborne Transmission Risks on Public Transportation Buses An Empirical Study on Aerosol Dispersion and Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Mask wearing in a transit or school bus setting could reduce the overall particle count released into the bus by an average of 50% or more (depending on mask quality), and could reduce the dispersion distance by several feet, according to an experimental study. The study conducted 84 test runs totaling 124 miles of on-the-road testing and used nebulized sodium chloride and 28 particle counters to simulate and measure cough aerosol dispersion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Edwards et al.\u00a0(Mar 1, 2021). Reducing COVID-19 Airborne Transmission Risks on Public Transportation Buses An Empirical Study on Aerosol Dispersion and Control. Pre-print downloaded Mar 2 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.25.21252220\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.25.21252220<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Mask wearing in a transit or school bus setting could reduce the overall particle count released into the bus by an average of 50% or more (depending on mask quality), and could reduce the dispersion distance by several feet, according to an experimental study. The study conducted 84 test runs totaling 124&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/02\/reducing-covid-19-airborne-transmission-risks-on-public-transportation-buses-an-empirical-study-on-aerosol-dispersion-and-control\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38,189],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","tag-transportation","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}