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

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

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

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Article

Authors

Burridge, Henry C

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0719-355X

Bhagat, Rajesh

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8928-4534

Stettler, Marc EJ

Kumar, Prashant

De Mel, Ishanki

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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.

Journal Title

Proc Math Phys Eng Sci

Journal ISSN

1364-5021
1471-2946

Volume Title

477

Publisher

The Royal Society

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0855

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Attribution 4.0 International

Sponsorship

This work was undertaken as a contribution to the Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) initiative, coordinated by the Royal Society.

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