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2/ In short, CO2 is an indicator of how much exhaled air (and thus potentially virus) is present in indoor air.
Portable CO2 meters allow us to identify poorly ventilated spaces, and improve ventilation (e.g. adjust windows, esp. important if outdoors is hot or cold)
3/ The linked thread has an extensive explanation and links to other documents and scientific papers:
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COVID-19 is mostly transmitted through the air, by breathing in infectious aerosols, in close proximity or in shared room air (thelancet.com/journals/lance…)
2/ For that reason, this is an indoor-dominated pandemic. It is much easier to be infected indoors than outdoors (academic.oup.com/jid/article/22…).
The best infection prevention strategy is do everything that you can outdoors
3/ But we have to go indoors at times.
Measuring the virus in the air is difficult, slow, and expensive.
CO2 indoors marks the presence of exhaled air, and serves as a proxy for the virus (cartoon from @numeroteca)
Un detalle es que la carta de los 239 científicos se publicó en julio 2020, no en abril como dice el artículo. Tal vez se lo dije mal al hablar deprisa.
Tambien la 1a frase del articulo "Es prácticamente imposible que las miles de gotitas que emitimos al hablar infecten a las personas y los objetos que nos rodean." no es algo que diría yo. Porque no es imposible, simplemente es una forma seguramente poco importante de contagio.
1/ The article "A room, a bar, and a class: how the coronavirus is spread through the air" in @elpaisinenglish has just won the Ortega y Gasset Prize, the most prestigious for the Spanish language press.
3/ The article that won the award was based on our shared-room air transmission estimator. It remains correct, although with the new variants transmission goes up some (the estimator allows taking this into account).
1/ El artículo de @el_pais "Un salón, un bar, y una clase: así contagia el coronavirus en el aire" acaba de ganar el Premio Ortega y Gasset, el más prestigioso del periodismo en español.
2/ Es un artículo extraordinario, y os recomiendo mucho leerlo si no lo habíais hecho. Sigue siendo correcto (aunque habría que aumentar un poco los contagios por las variantes).