{"id":116171,"date":"2020-11-22T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/aerodynamics-of-infectious-disease-airflow-studies-reveal-strategies-to-reduce-indoor-transmission-of-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-11-22T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:46:16","slug":"aerodynamics-of-infectious-disease-airflow-studies-reveal-strategies-to-reduce-indoor-transmission-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/aerodynamics-of-infectious-disease-airflow-studies-reveal-strategies-to-reduce-indoor-transmission-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Aerodynamics of Infectious Disease: Airflow Studies Reveal Strategies to Reduce Indoor Transmission of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aerodynamics-of-infectious-disease-airflow-studies-reveal-strategies-to-reduce-indoor-transmission-of-covid-19.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists studying the aerodynamics of infectious disease share steps to curb transmission during indoor activities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wear a mask. Stay six feet apart. Avoid large gatherings. As the world awaits a safe and effective vaccine, controlling the COVID-19 pandemic hinges on widespread compliance with these public health guidelines. But as colder weather forces people to spend more time indoors, blocking disease transmission will become more challenging than ever.<\/p>\n<p>At the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society\u2019s Division of Fluid Dynamics, researchers presented a range of studies investigating the aerodynamics of infectious disease. Their results suggest strategies for lowering risk based on a rigorous understanding of how infectious particles mix with air in confined spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists studying the aerodynamics of infectious disease share steps to curb transmission during indoor activities. Wear a mask. Stay six feet apart. Avoid large gatherings. As the world awaits a safe and effective vaccine, controlling the COVID-19 pandemic hinges on widespread compliance with these public health guidelines. But as colder weather forces people to spend [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}