{"id":9577,"date":"2021-05-04T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:26:30","slug":"are-the-portable-air-cleaners-pac-really-effective-to-terminate-airborne-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/04\/are-the-portable-air-cleaners-pac-really-effective-to-terminate-airborne-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Portable Air Cleaners (PAC) Really Effective to Terminate Airborne SARS-CoV-2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Air sampling in residential rooms of COVID-19 patients (n=7) in Spain showed that 100% of samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA (cycle threshold (Ct) cutoff 41), but only 15% (1 of 7) of samples were positive after installation of a portable air cleaner (PAC) with a HEPA filter. Notably, the one positive sample after installation of a PAC was detected in a room larger than the PAC recommended specifications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rodr\u00edguez et al.\u00a0(Apr 29, 2021). Are the Portable Air Cleaners (PAC) Really Effective to Terminate Airborne SARS-CoV-2? Science of The Total Environment. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2021.147300\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2021.147300<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air sampling in residential rooms of COVID-19 patients (n=7) in Spain showed that 100% of samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA (cycle threshold (Ct) cutoff 41), but only 15% (1 of 7) of samples were positive after installation of a portable air cleaner (PAC) with a HEPA filter. Notably, the one positive sample after installation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/04\/are-the-portable-air-cleaners-pac-really-effective-to-terminate-airborne-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[78,162,224],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-air-purification","tag-airborne-transmission","tag-non-harm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","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=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}