RES.10-S95 | Fall 2020 | Undergraduate

Physics of COVID-19 Transmission

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Video 2-3: Airborne Disease Transmission in a Well-Mixed Room—Air Filtration Versus Masks

Air filtration and mask filtration reduce COVID-19 transmission in different ways. Air filters, no matter how effective, only increase uniform removal of virions from the indoor air. Even basic masks block droplets both at the source and at the target.

Speaker: Professor Martin Z. Bazant

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