{"id":116969,"date":"2020-12-11T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/military-grade-camera-shows-risks-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:27:08","slug":"military-grade-camera-shows-risks-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/military-grade-camera-shows-risks-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread","title":{"rendered":"Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/military-grade-camera-shows-risks-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To visually illustrate the risk of airborne transmission in real time, The Washington Post used a military-grade infrared camera capable of detecting exhaled breath. Numerous experts \u2014 epidemiologists, virologists and engineers \u2014 supported the notion of using exhalation as a conservative proxy to show potential transmission risk in various settings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe images are very, very telling,\u201d said Rajat Mittal, a professor of mechanical engineering in Johns Hopkins University\u2019s medical and engineering schools and an expert on virus transmission. \u201cGetting two people and actually visualizing what\u2019s happening between them, that\u2019s very invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To visually illustrate the risk of airborne transmission in real time, The Washington Post used a military-grade infrared camera capable of detecting exhaled breath. Numerous experts \u2014 epidemiologists, virologists and engineers \u2014 supported the notion of using exhalation as a conservative proxy to show potential transmission risk in various settings. \u201cThe images are very, very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116969","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\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}