Vertical outbreak of COVID-19 in high-rise buildings: The role of sewer stacks and prevention measures

Y Guo, X Li, S Luby, G Jiang - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 outbreaks in high-rise buildings suggested the transmission route of fecal-aerosol-
inhalation due to the involvement of viral aerosols in sewer stacks. The vertical transmission …

A review of facilities management interventions to mitigate respiratory infections in existing buildings

Y Zhang, FKP Hui, C Duffield, AM Saeed - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The Covid-19 pandemic reveals that the hazard of the respiratory virus was a secondary
consideration in the design, development, construction, and management of public and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of indoor air quality and risk of COVID-19 infection in Spanish secondary school and university classrooms

D Rodríguez, IR Urbieta, Á Velasco… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Spanish educational centers were
reopened after six months of lockdown. Ventilation was mostly adopted as a preventive …

Role of pathogen-laden expiratory droplet dispersion and natural ventilation explaining a COVID-19 outbreak in a coach bus

Q Luo, C Ou, J Hang, Z Luo, H Yang, X Yang… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The influencing mechanism of droplet transmissions inside crowded and poorly ventilated
buses on infection risks of respiratory diseases is still unclear. Based on experiments of one …

Enhanced decay of coronaviruses in sewers with domestic wastewater

J Shi, X Li, S Zhang, E Sharma, M Sivakumar… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent outbreaks caused by coronaviruses and their supposed potential fecal-oral
transmission highlight the need for understanding the survival of infectious coronavirus in …

Spread of SARS-CoV-2 aerosols via two connected drainage stacks in a high-rise housing outbreak of COVID-19

Q Wang, Z Lin, J Niu, GKY Choi, JCH Fung… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vertical transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)
along a vertical column of flats has been documented in several outbreaks of coronavirus …

Explosive outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is associated with vertical transmission in high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong

VCC Cheng, SC Wong, AKW Au, C Zhang… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The phenomenon of vertical transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) in high-rise residential buildings (HRRBs) is unique in our densely …

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 IgA and IgG in human milk and breastfeeding infant stool 6 months after maternal COVID-19 vaccination

LS Stafford, V Valcarce, M Henry, J Neu… - Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Objective Assess presence, durability, and neutralization capacity of SARS-CoV-2-specific
antibodies in breastfeeding infants' stool, mother's plasma and milk following maternal …

Spread of flushing-generated fecal aerosols in a squat toilet cubicle: Implication for infection risk

D Luo, J Huang, X Zheng, F Liu, Y Li, Y Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Toilet flushing generates and spread fecal aerosols, potentially leading to infection
transmission risk. Squat toilets are widely used in public restrooms in some Asian countries …

Ventilation reconstruction in bathrooms for restraining hazardous plume: Mitigate COVID-19 and beyond

JX Wang, Z Wu, H Wang, M Zhong, Y Mao, Y Li… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Converging evidence reports that the probability of vertical transmission patterns via shared
drainage systems, may be responsible for the huge contactless community outbreak in high …