{"id":6852,"date":"2020-05-14T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:25:25","slug":"a-novel-box-for-aerosol-and-droplet-guarding-and-evacuation-in-respiratory-infection-badger-a-potential-mitigating-strategy-for-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-future-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/14\/a-novel-box-for-aerosol-and-droplet-guarding-and-evacuation-in-respiratory-infection-badger-a-potential-mitigating-strategy-for-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-future-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel Box for Aerosol and Droplet Guarding and Evacuation in Respiratory Infection (BADGER) A Potential Mitigating Strategy for the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Oberstar et al. report on the development of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an affordable and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0scalable device that can contain droplets and aerosol particles for potentially use by healthcare providers treating COVID-19 patients. The BADGER (Box for Aerosol and Droplet Guarding and Evacuation in Respiratory Infection) creates a semi-sealed environment and has multiple hand-ports for healthcare providers to perform essential tasks on a patient&#8217;s airway and head. Quantitative aerosol testing shows &gt;90% containment of sub-micrometer aerosolized particles.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Oberstar et al. (May 13, 2020). A Novel Box for Aerosol and Droplet Guarding and Evacuation in Respiratory Infection (BADGER) A Potential Mitigating Strategy for the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Outbreaks. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 14 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.09.20096032\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.09.20096032<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oberstar et al. report on the development of\u00a0an affordable and\u00a0scalable device that can contain droplets and aerosol particles for potentially use by healthcare providers treating COVID-19 patients. The BADGER (Box for Aerosol and Droplet Guarding and Evacuation in Respiratory Infection) creates a semi-sealed environment and has multiple hand-ports for healthcare providers to perform essential tasks&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/14\/a-novel-box-for-aerosol-and-droplet-guarding-and-evacuation-in-respiratory-infection-badger-a-potential-mitigating-strategy-for-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-future-outbreaks\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","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=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}