Keeping Omicron infection risk low requires room ventilation rates 50 times greater (IMAGE)

Tsinghua University Press

Keeping Omicron infection risk low requires room ventilation rates 50 times greater

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Figure showing that the risk of infection for a given rate of ventilation (cubic meters of airflow into a room or building per hour) has sharply increased as new SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged.

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Building Simulation, Tsinghua University Press

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