What can you do to reduce the risk of transmitting a virus in an indoor facility?
Humidity actually reduces the infectivity of aerosolized viruses in the air, the infectivity of viruses on surfaces, as well as reducing the surface virus percentages.
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How many people need to get a COVID- 19 vaccine for herd immunity?
https://www.facebook.com/CDC/photos/a.184668026025/10158715487591026/?comment_id=390272922226482
Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in a nonhuman primate model
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24277828/
Infectious virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic seasonal influenza cases from a college community
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29348203/
Wearing a used mask could be worse than no mask amid COVID-19: study
https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/wearing-a-used-mask-could-worse-than-no-mask-amid-covid-19study/
Implications of asymptomatic carriers for infectious disease transmission and control
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29515909/
Here’s Why Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear a Mask
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/health/covid-vaccine-mask.html
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Increase in deaths from pertussis among young infants in the United States in the 1990s
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12867839/
Longitudinal active sampling for respiratory viral infections across age groups
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30770641/
The Covid Tracking Project-US Daily Reported Tests, 7-Day Average Line
https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-tests
COVID-19 Vaccination Plan TENNESSEE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
https://www.tn.gov/health/news/2020/12/30/tdh-updates-covid-19-vaccination-plan.html
Scientists now believe COVID-19 is ‘aerosolized.’ What does that mean?
High Humidity Leads to Loss of Infectious Influenza Virus from Simulated Coughs
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057485
Humidify to reduce respiratory virus transmission