{"id":7239,"date":"2020-06-01T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:34:51","slug":"surgical-mask-partition-reduces-the-risk-of-non-contact-transmission-in-a-golden-syrian-hamster-model-for-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/surgical-mask-partition-reduces-the-risk-of-non-contact-transmission-in-a-golden-syrian-hamster-model-for-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical Mask Partition Reduces the Risk of Non-Contact Transmission in a Golden Syrian Hamster Model for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A hamster SARS-CoV-2 model experiment reported\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the effect of adding a partition that simulates a surgical mask on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0transmission between\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hamste<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">separate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cages<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with unidirectional airflow.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the absence of a mask partition, 67%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(10 of 15)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of exposed hamsters became infected. Adding the s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">urgical mask partition reduced transmission to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">between\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">17 and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">25%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, depending on configuration<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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\">Chan et al. (May 30, 2020). Surgical Mask Partition Reduces the Risk of Non-Contact Transmission in a Golden Syrian Hamster Model for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa644\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa644<\/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>A hamster SARS-CoV-2 model experiment reported\u00a0the effect of adding a partition that simulates a surgical mask on\u00a0transmission between\u00a0hamsters\u00a0in\u00a0separate\u00a0cages\u00a0with unidirectional airflow.\u00a0In the absence of a mask partition, 67%\u00a0(10 of 15)\u00a0of exposed hamsters became infected. Adding the surgical mask partition reduced transmission to\u00a0between\u00a017 and\u00a025%, depending on configuration.\u00a0 Chan et al. (May 30, 2020). Surgical Mask Partition Reduces&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/surgical-mask-partition-reduces-the-risk-of-non-contact-transmission-in-a-golden-syrian-hamster-model-for-coronavirus-disease-2019-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-7239","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\/7239","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=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7240,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions\/7240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}