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The ventilation of buildings and other mitigating measures for COVID-19: a focus on wintertime

Henry C. Burridge, Rajesh K. Bhagat, Marc E. J. Stettler, Prashant Kumar, Ishanki De Mel, Panagiotis Demis, Allen Hart, Yyanis Johnson-Llambias, Marco-Felipe King, Oleksiy Klymenko, Alison McMillan, Piotr Morawiecki, Thomas Pennington, Michael Short, David Sykes, Philippe H. Trinh, Stephen K. Wilson, Clint Wong, Hayley Wragg, Megan S. Davies Wykes, Chris Iddon, Andrew W. Woods, Nicola Mingotti, Neeraja Bhamidipati, Huw Woodward, Clive Beggs, Hywel Davies, Shaun Fitzgerald, Christopher Pain, P. F. Linden

2021Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences50 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

The year 2020 has seen the emergence of a global pandemic as a result of the disease COVID-19. This report reviews knowledge of the transmission of COVID-19 indoors, examines the evidence for mitigating measures, and considers the implications for wintertime with a focus on ventilation.

Topics & Concepts

Focus (optics)Ventilation (architecture)PandemicEnvironmental scienceTransmission (telecommunications)Environmental planningCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Environmental resource managementRisk analysis (engineering)Climate changeBusinessInfection Control and VentilationCOVID-19 impact on air qualityIndoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
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