{"id":5641,"date":"2020-04-03T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:18:14","slug":"covid-19-outbreak-associated-with-air-conditioning-in-restaurant-guangzhou-china-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/covid-19-outbreak-associated-with-air-conditioning-in-restaurant-guangzhou-china-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lu et al conduct a detailed investigation of 3 family clusters with COVID-19 who had eaten at the same air-conditioned restaurant in China and conclude that the key factor for infection was the direction of the airflow and that droplet transmission was prompted by air-conditioned ventilation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To prevent spread of COVID-19 in restaurants, the article recommends strengthening temperature-monitoring surveillance, increasing the distance between tables, and improving ventilation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lu et al. (Apr 2, 2020). COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020. Emerg Infect Dis. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2607.200764\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2607.200764<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lu et al conduct a detailed investigation of 3 family clusters with COVID-19 who had eaten at the same air-conditioned restaurant in China and conclude that the key factor for infection was the direction of the airflow and that droplet transmission was prompted by air-conditioned ventilation. To prevent spread of COVID-19 in restaurants, the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/covid-19-outbreak-associated-with-air-conditioning-in-restaurant-guangzhou-china-2020\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","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=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5642,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}