{"id":6995,"date":"2020-05-20T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:48:07","slug":"influence-of-wind-and-relative-humidity-on-the-social-distancing-effectiveness-to-prevent-covid-19-airborne-transmission-a-numerical-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/20\/influence-of-wind-and-relative-humidity-on-the-social-distancing-effectiveness-to-prevent-covid-19-airborne-transmission-a-numerical-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence of Wind and Relative Humidity on\u00a0the Social\u00a0Distancing Effectiveness to Prevent COVID-19 Airborne Transmission: A Numerical Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Feng et al\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">u<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a validated computational fluid particle dynamics model to simulate the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 laden droplets emitted by coughs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ind<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">under\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">various wind and relative humidity conditions, microdroplets can be transported much farther than the recommended social\u00a0distancing\u00a0policy of 6 feet.\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=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The simulations also support previous studies that even wearing facial masks in an unrealistically loose condition when coughing can significantly reduce the suspension of small droplets in the air.<\/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\">Feng et al. (May 2020). Influence of Wind and Relative Humidity on\u00a0the Social\u00a0Distancing Effectiveness to Prevent COVID-19 Airborne Transmission: A Numerical Study. Journal of Aerosol Science.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jaerosci.2020.105585\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jaerosci.2020.105585<\/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>Feng et al\u00a0use\u00a0a validated computational fluid particle dynamics model to simulate the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 laden droplets emitted by coughs. They\u00a0find\u00a0that\u00a0under\u00a0various wind and relative humidity conditions, microdroplets can be transported much farther than the recommended social\u00a0distancing\u00a0policy of 6 feet.\u00a0\u00a0 The simulations also support previous studies that even wearing facial masks in an unrealistically loose condition&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/20\/influence-of-wind-and-relative-humidity-on-the-social-distancing-effectiveness-to-prevent-covid-19-airborne-transmission-a-numerical-study\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6995","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\/6995","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=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}