{"id":6910,"date":"2020-05-18T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:37:43","slug":"understanding-the-indoor-pre-symptomatic-transmission-mechanism-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/18\/understanding-the-indoor-pre-symptomatic-transmission-mechanism-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Indoor Pre-Symptomatic Transmission Mechanism of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Arav et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">developed an evidence-based mathematical model to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">identify\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the mechanism\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of how\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pre-symptomatic individuals transmit SARS-CoV-2. The model explicitly quantifies the dynamics of contact and airborne transmission between individuals indoors.\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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Modeling results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">show\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the main transmission mechanism\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s through close\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">contact, mostly directly but also mediated by fomites<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">while the contribution of the airborne route is negligible<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Based\u00a0in\u00a0the model, f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">requent\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hand washing and fomite cleaning<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0coupled with avoiding physical contact<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0result<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in a similar risk\u00a0for\u00a0infection\u00a0as\u00a0wearing gloves and a mask.\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\">Arav et al. (May 17, 2020). Understanding the Indoor Pre-Symptomatic Transmission Mechanism of COVID-19. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 18 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.12.20099085\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.12.20099085<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>Arav et al.\u00a0developed an evidence-based mathematical model to\u00a0identify\u00a0the mechanism\u00a0of how\u00a0pre-symptomatic individuals transmit SARS-CoV-2. The model explicitly quantifies the dynamics of contact and airborne transmission between individuals indoors.\u00a0\u00a0 Modeling results\u00a0show\u00a0the main transmission mechanism\u00a0is through close\u00a0contact, mostly directly but also mediated by fomites,\u00a0while the contribution of the airborne route is negligible.\u00a0Based\u00a0in\u00a0the model, frequent\u00a0hand washing and fomite cleaning,\u00a0coupled&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/18\/understanding-the-indoor-pre-symptomatic-transmission-mechanism-of-covid-19\/\">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-6910","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\/6910","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=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}