This is pretty interesting. The article lays out an existing intellectual divide or siloization between medical professionals/researchers (& the engineers working w/ them) vs aerosol scientists (& the engineers working w/ them). 1/
#covid19 #masks
wired.com/story/how-mask…
When I first started reviewing the research on influenza to evaluate the potential for developing a tool to estimate risk of infection reductions via ventilation, filtration, etc., I got some pushback. Engineers steeped in hospital/healthcare design told me... 2/
influenza wasn’t airborne, or at least not enough to present any real threat. Which contradicted what was being said in the aerosol research literature.
So I had the opportunity to experience this intellectual divide first hand. 3/
In the end it was pretty hard to ignore the evidence in the aerosol scientific literature, & as a result we now have the Flu Infection Risk Estimator(TM) tool: branchpattern.com/research/risk-…
Though as version 2 will likely include SARS-CoV-2, we’ll have to change the name. 4/
The article also suggests that our current pandemic may finally break the dam between the two intellectual traditions. That seems like a good thing. 5/
#covid19 #influenza #masks #HVAC #ventilation #aerosol
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