{"id":7278,"date":"2020-06-02T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:54:33","slug":"quantitative-assessment-of-the-risk-of-airborne-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-infection-prospective-and-retrospective-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/quantitative-assessment-of-the-risk-of-airborne-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-infection-prospective-and-retrospective-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Prospective and Retrospective Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Buonanno et al. present a 4-step approach for quantitatively assessing infection risk in the presence of an asymptomatic COVID-19 subject in\u00a0naturally<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ventilated\u00a0indoor environments, asserting that exposure time should be<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0no<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">longer\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">than 20 minutes to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">limit the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">individual risk\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of infection to no more than<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a01%.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">etrospectively\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">assessing prior outbreaks such as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">choir rehearsal in Mount Vernon, WA, the authors claim that outbreaks\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0only be explained by airborne transmission as the primary route of infection<\/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\">Buonanno et al. 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Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Prospective and Retrospective Applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint\u00a0downloaded\u00a0June\u00a02 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.01.20118984\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.01.20118984<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><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>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Buonanno et al. present a 4-step approach for quantitatively assessing infection risk in the presence of an asymptomatic COVID-19 subject in\u00a0naturally&#8211;ventilated\u00a0indoor environments, asserting that exposure time should be\u00a0no\u00a0longer\u00a0than 20 minutes to\u00a0limit the\u00a0individual risk\u00a0of infection to no more than\u00a01%.\u00a0After retrospectively\u00a0assessing prior outbreaks such as\u00a0in\u00a0a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, and\u00a0a\u00a0choir rehearsal in Mount Vernon,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/quantitative-assessment-of-the-risk-of-airborne-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-infection-prospective-and-retrospective-applications\/\">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-7278","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\/7278","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=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7279,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions\/7279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}