{"id":9881,"date":"2021-05-18T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:32:03","slug":"controlling-risk-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-essential-workers-of-enclosed-food-manufacturing-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/18\/controlling-risk-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-essential-workers-of-enclosed-food-manufacturing-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Essential Workers of Enclosed Food Manufacturing Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In a quantitative risk assessment model simulating a susceptible worker exposed to a SARS-CoV-2-infected worker during an 8-hour shift at an enclosed food manufacturing facility, infection risk was highest (96%) via droplet and aerosol transmission within 1-3 meters in the absence of any mitigation measures. Droplet transmission contributed mostly at 1 meter distance, while aerosols comprised the majority of the exposure dose by 3 meters. Transmission by fomites was low, even at 1 meter distance (26%). Physical distancing, universal masking, and improving ventilation could reduce risks by up to 91%, 88%, and 85%, respectively; combining strategies could result in &lt;1% infection risk.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sobolik et al.\u00a0(May 18, 2021). Controlling Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Essential Workers of Enclosed Food Manufacturing Facilities. Pre-print downloaded May 18 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.14.21257244\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.14.21257244<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In a quantitative risk assessment model simulating a susceptible worker exposed to a SARS-CoV-2-infected worker during an 8-hour shift at an enclosed food manufacturing facility, infection risk was highest (96%) via droplet and aerosol transmission within 1-3 meters in the absence of any mitigation measures. Droplet transmission contributed mostly at 1 meter&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/18\/controlling-risk-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-essential-workers-of-enclosed-food-manufacturing-facilities\/\">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":[39,37],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","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=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9882,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}