Simple quantitative assessment of the outdoor versus indoor airborne transmission of viruses and COVID-19
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Rowe Consulting, 22 Chemin des Moines, 22750, Saint Jacut de La Mer, France
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31B Chemin Du Couvent, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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MERL-Consulting SAS, 21 Rue Sergent Guihard, 35000, Rennes, France.
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2021-07-01
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR: 1.822
CiteScore: 14.7
Impact factor: 7.7
ISSN: 00139351, 10960953
PubMed ID:
33872644
Biochemistry
General Environmental Science
Abstract
In this paper we develop a simple model of the inhaled flow rate of aerosol particles of respiratory origin i.e. that have been exhaled by other people. A connection is made between the exposure dose and the probability of developing an airborne disease. This allows a simple assessment of the outdoor versus indoor risk of contamination to be made in a variety of meteorological situations. It is shown quantitatively that for most cases, the outdoor risk is orders of magnitude less than the indoor risk and that it can become comparable only for extremely specific meteorological and topographical situations. It sheds light on various observations of COVID-19 spreading in mountain valleys with temperature inversions while at the same time other areas are much less impacted.
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Rowe B. R. et al. Simple quantitative assessment of the outdoor versus indoor airborne transmission of viruses and COVID-19 // Environmental Research. 2021. Vol. 198. p. 111189.
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Rowe B. R., Canosa A., DROUFFE J., Mitchell J. R. Simple quantitative assessment of the outdoor versus indoor airborne transmission of viruses and COVID-19 // Environmental Research. 2021. Vol. 198. p. 111189.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111189
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111189
TI - Simple quantitative assessment of the outdoor versus indoor airborne transmission of viruses and COVID-19
T2 - Environmental Research
AU - Rowe, B. R.
AU - Canosa, André
AU - DROUFFE, J.-M.
AU - Mitchell, James R.
PY - 2021
DA - 2021/07/01
PB - Elsevier
SP - 111189
VL - 198
PMID - 33872644
SN - 0013-9351
SN - 1096-0953
ER -
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@article{2021_Rowe,
author = {B. R. Rowe and André Canosa and J.-M. DROUFFE and James R. Mitchell},
title = {Simple quantitative assessment of the outdoor versus indoor airborne transmission of viruses and COVID-19},
journal = {Environmental Research},
year = {2021},
volume = {198},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {jul},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111189},
pages = {111189},
doi = {10.1016/j.envres.2021.111189}
}