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Liu, Y.L. (author), Ortiz, Marco A. (author), Zhang, D. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)The airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in educational buildings has raised concerns during the current COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, a portable fog generator system was designed and assembled to visualise the airflow pattern of exhaled droplets in a classroom. The system consists of five components: medium, fog generator, buffer, pump, and...conference paper 2022
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Ding, Er (author), Zhang, D. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Airborne transmission of small respiratory droplets (i.e., aerosols) is one of the dominant transmission routes of pathogens of several contagious respiratory diseases, which mainly takes place between occupants when sharing indoor spaces. The important role of ventilation in airborne infection control has been extensively discussed in...review 2022
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Jimenez, Jose L. (author), Marr, Linsey C. (author), Randall, Katherine (author), Ewing, Edward Thomas (author), Tufekci, Zeynep (author), Greenhalgh, Trish (author), Tellier, Raymond (author), Tang, Julian W. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Abstract The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission research in other diseases. For most of human history, the dominant paradigm was that many diseases were carried by the air, often over long...journal article 2022