The impact of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning design features on the transmission of viruses, including the 2019 novel coronavirus: A systematic review of …

GM Thornton, BA Fleck, N Fleck, E Kroeker… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Respiratory viruses are capable of transmitting via an aerosol route. Emerging evidence
suggests that SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 can be spread through airborne …

The influence of ventilation measures on the airborne risk of infection in schools: a scoping review

SN Jendrossek, LA Jurk, K Remmers, YE Cetin… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Objectives: To review the risk of airborne infections in schools and evaluate the effect of
intervention measures reported in field studies. Background: Schools are part of a country's …

A coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics and Wells-Riley model to predict COVID-19 infection probability for passengers on long-distance trains

Z Wang, ER Galea, A Grandison, J Ewer, F Jia - Safety science, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Coupled Wells-Riley (WR) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling
(WR-CFD) facilitates a detailed analysis of COVID-19 infection probability (IP). This …

Safer singing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: what we know and what we don't

MR Naunheim, J Bock, PA Doucette, M Hoch, I Howell… - Journal of Voice, 2021 - jvoice.org
INTRODUCTION While the novel coronavirus outbreak has profoundly altered health care
systems across the globe, it has also affected similar change and devastation on the social …

[HTML][HTML] The airborne contagiousness of respiratory viruses: a comparative analysis and implications for mitigation

A Mikszewski, L Stabile, G Buonanno, L Morawska - Geoscience Frontiers, 2022 - Elsevier
The infectious emission rate is a fundamental input parameter for airborne transmission risk
assessment, but data are limited due to reliance on estimates from chance superspreading …

Respiratory particle emission rates from children during speaking

E Caracci, L Stabile, AR Ferro, L Morawska… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The number of respiratory particles emitted during different respiratory activities is one of the
main parameters affecting the airborne transmission of respiratory pathogens. Information …

Simulation-based trade-off modeling for indoor infection risk of airborne diseases, energy consumption, and thermal comfort

Y Xu, J Chen, J Cai, S Li, Q He - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The transmission of airborne diseases indoors represents a significant challenge to public
health. While enhancing ventilation can mitigate infection risks, it simultaneously escalates …

Asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19 infections among health care personnel before and after vaccination

SK Gohil, K Olenslager, KA Quan, CK Dastur… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
By mid-April 2021, there were 133 million COVID-19 infections and 2.9 million associated
deaths worldwide. 1 Several vaccines offer hope to end the pandemic. COVID-19 mRNA …

Vaccination coverage estimates and utilization patterns of inactivated enterovirus 71 vaccine post vaccine introduction in Ningbo, China

L Ye, J Chen, T Fang, R Ma, J Wang, X Pan, H Dong… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In China, enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the major etiological agents of hand
foot mouth disease that poses severe risks to children's health. Since 2015, three inactivated …

Modeling the impact of indoor relative humidity on the infection risk of five respiratory airborne viruses

A Aganovic, Y Bi, G Cao, J Kurnitski, P Wargocki - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
With a modified version of the Wells-Riley model, we simulated the size distribution and
dynamics of five airborne viruses (measles, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, human rhinovirus, and …