{"id":7243,"date":"2020-06-01T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:37:08","slug":"small-droplet-aerosols-in-poorly-ventilated-spaces-and-sars-cov-2-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/small-droplet-aerosols-in-poorly-ventilated-spaces-and-sars-cov-2-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Droplet Aerosols in Poorly Ventilated Spaces and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission"},"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\">Somsen et al. use an\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">xperimental system with healthy volunteers to examine the number, size, and persistence of respiratory droplets produced during a cough, sneeze, and normal talking. Small\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">droplets of the size potentially associated with aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 persisted\u00a0up\u00a0to 9 minutes.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Increasing ventilation through mechanical systems and opening a door or a window substantially decreased the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">persistence of droplets<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These findings support improving ventilation for public spaces to clear potentially infectious aerosols<\/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\">Somsen et al. (May 27, 2020). Small Droplet Aerosols in Poorly Ventilated Spaces and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0Respiratory Medicine.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(20)30245-9\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(20)30245-9<\/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>Somsen et al. use an\u00a0experimental system with healthy volunteers to examine the number, size, and persistence of respiratory droplets produced during a cough, sneeze, and normal talking. Small\u00a0droplets of the size potentially associated with aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 persisted\u00a0up\u00a0to 9 minutes.\u00a0Increasing ventilation through mechanical systems and opening a door or a window substantially decreased the\u00a0persistence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/small-droplet-aerosols-in-poorly-ventilated-spaces-and-sars-cov-2-transmission\/\">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-7243","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\/7243","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=7243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7244,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions\/7244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}