Health
It’s time to rethink indoor airflow to reduce the spread of COVID-19, say experts – The New Daily
While masks and hand hygiene can reduce the spread of COVID, the ventilation of our homes and workplaces could be another tool in our prevention armoury.
Dr Robyn Schofield, an atmospheric chemist from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, said the threat of aerosol transmission is particularly significant for the virus spreading indoors.
“If you have an inside space with a lot of people in it, a lot of people breathing, you will get a lot of aerosol building up and so the risk is higher,” Dr Schofield said.
“If the source person is wearing a mask, most of the respiratory aerosol has been caught by the mask so the risk is lower….
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