A real-time web tool for monitoring and mitigating indoor airborne COVID-19 transmission risks at city scale.

ABSTRACT: Airborne transmission of aerosols contributes to a large portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spread indoors. This study develops a real-time interactive web-based platform for the public to compare various strategies to curb indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 in different archetype buildings at a city scale. Although many countries have started vaccination and a gradual re-opening, because of emerging new variants of the virus and the possibility of future pandemics, a lively updated tool for monitoring and mitigation of infection risk is essential. As a demonstration, we evaluated the impacts of six mitigation measures on the infection risks in various building types in a city. It shows that the same strategy could perform quite differently, depending on building types and properties. All str

SUBMITTER: Albettar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8891144 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature