Preventing Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Ajit Ahlawat; Sumit Kumar Mishra; John W Birks; Francesca Costabile; Alfred Wiedensohler

doi:10.3390/ijerph17228553

Preventing Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Nov 18;17(22):8553. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17228553.

Authors

Ajit Ahlawat¹, Sumit Kumar Mishra², John W Birks³, Francesca Costabile⁴, Alfred Wiedensohler¹

Affiliations

¹ Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
² CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi 110012, India.
³ 2B Technologies, 2100 Central Ave., Suite 104, Boulder, CO 80301, USA.
⁴ Institute of Atmospheric Science and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), I-00133 Rome, Italy.

Abstract

The first case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the novel contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Air Microbiology*
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Hospitals*
Humans
Infection Control*
Nursing Homes*
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
SARS-CoV-2