Pandemic management requires exposure science
COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, on 8.12.2019, and WHO announced it a pandemic on 11.3.2020. No vaccines or medical cures against COVID-19 were available in the first corona year. Instead, different combinations of generic non-pharmaceutical interventions – to slow down the spread of inf...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:403381d3d9ea4326845dc4690354f8a9 2023-05-15T17:34:04+02:00 Pandemic management requires exposure science Matti J. Jantunen 2022-11-01 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107470 https://doaj.org/article/403381d3d9ea4326845dc4690354f8a9 en eng Elsevier 0160-4120 doi:10.1016/j.envint.2022.107470 https://doaj.org/article/403381d3d9ea4326845dc4690354f8a9 undefined Environment International, Vol 169, Iss , Pp 107470- (2022) Environmental and individual exposure control Viral aerosol exposure prevention and reduction Non-pharmaceutical interventions Ventilation and air cleaning Personal protective equipment FFP2 and N95 respirators envir socio Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2022 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107470 2023-01-22T19:12:00Z COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, on 8.12.2019, and WHO announced it a pandemic on 11.3.2020. No vaccines or medical cures against COVID-19 were available in the first corona year. Instead, different combinations of generic non-pharmaceutical interventions – to slow down the spread of infections via exposure restrictions to ‘flatten the curve’ so that it would not overburden the health care systems, or to suppress the virus to extinction – were applied with varying levels of strictness, duration and success in the Pacific and North Atlantic regions.Due to an old misconception, almost all public health authorities dismissed the possibility that the virus would be transmitted via air. Opportunities to reduce the inhalation exposure – such as wearing effective FFP2/N95 respirators, improving ventilation and indoor air cleaning – were missed, and instead, hands were washed and surfaces disinfected.The fact that aerosols were acknowledged as the main route of COVID-19 transmission in 2021 opened avenues for more efficient and socially less disruptive exposure and risk reduction policies that are discussed and evaluated here, demonstrating that indoor air and exposure sciences are crucial for successful management of pandemics. To effectively apply environmental and personal exposure mitigation measures, exposure science needs to target the human-to-human exposure pathways of the virus. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Unknown Pacific Environment International 169 107470 |
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COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, on 8.12.2019, and WHO announced it a pandemic on 11.3.2020. No vaccines or medical cures against COVID-19 were available in the first corona year. Instead, different combinations of generic non-pharmaceutical interventions – to slow down the spread of infections via exposure restrictions to ‘flatten the curve’ so that it would not overburden the health care systems, or to suppress the virus to extinction – were applied with varying levels of strictness, duration and success in the Pacific and North Atlantic regions.Due to an old misconception, almost all public health authorities dismissed the possibility that the virus would be transmitted via air. Opportunities to reduce the inhalation exposure – such as wearing effective FFP2/N95 respirators, improving ventilation and indoor air cleaning – were missed, and instead, hands were washed and surfaces disinfected.The fact that aerosols were acknowledged as the main route of COVID-19 transmission in 2021 opened avenues for more efficient and socially less disruptive exposure and risk reduction policies that are discussed and evaluated here, demonstrating that indoor air and exposure sciences are crucial for successful management of pandemics. To effectively apply environmental and personal exposure mitigation measures, exposure science needs to target the human-to-human exposure pathways of the virus. |
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