Putting a balance on the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2

S J Dancer^{1

2}, J W Tang³, L C Marr⁴, S Miller⁵, L Morawska⁶, J L Jimenez⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire, UK.
² School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
³ Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁴ Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA.
⁵ Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
⁶ International Laboratory for Air Quality and Heath, WHO Collaborating Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
⁷ Department of Chemistry and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Comment

S J Dancer et al. J Hosp Infect. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;105(3):569-570.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.014. Epub 2020 May 13.

S J Dancer^{1

2}, J W Tang³, L C Marr⁴, S Miller⁵, L Morawska⁶, J L Jimenez⁷

¹ Department of Microbiology, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire, UK.
² School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
³ Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁴ Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA.
⁵ Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
⁶ International Laboratory for Air Quality and Heath, WHO Collaborating Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
⁷ Department of Chemistry and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

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Putting some context to the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2.
Peters A, Parneix P, Otter J, Pittet D. Peters A, et al. J Hosp Infect. 2020 Jun;105(2):381-382. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.04.040. Epub 2020 Apr 30. J Hosp Infect. 2020. PMID: 32360356 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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