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Physics, Volume 2, Issue 3

September 2020 - 11 articles

Cover Story: In the current respiratory COVID-19 pandemic, airborne virus-laden aerosols are considered as the primary route of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. Staying in the air for a long enough time (minutes or hours), aerosol particles can be transferred over a long distance in an indoor environment to be inhaled by a susceptible host. Face cover masks are currently treated as the best accepted personal protective equipment (PPE) in mitigating aerosol dispersal. The material barrier of masks makes it uncomfortable to wear them in certain situations. The individually portable air curtain is a non-material barrier based, highly effective, PPE dynamically displacing the trajectories of infected particles that would otherwise be inhaled by an uninfected individual from reaching the surface and the openings of the host’s protected face. View this paper

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Study of an Air Curtain in the Context of Individual Protection from Exposure to Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Contained in Cough-Generated Fluid Particles

Alexander S. Sakharov and
Konstantin Zhukov

Physics2020, 2(3), 340-351;https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2030018

6 July 2020

The ongoing respiratory COVID-19 pandemic has heavily impacted the social and private lives of the majority of the global population. This infection is primarily transmitted via virus-laden fluid particles (i.e., droplets and aerosols) that are forme...

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