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Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
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Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Currently, the existing public health measures point to the importance of proper building and environmental engineering control measures, such as proper Indoor Air Quality (IAQ).
This pandemic clearly raised increased awareness on airborne transmission of respiratory viruses in indoor settings.
Out of the main modes of viral transmission, the airborne route of SARS-CoV-2 seems to have a significant importance to the spread of COVID-19 infections world-wide, hence proper guidance to building engineers or facility managers, on how to prevent on-site transmission, is essential.
For information on the Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, feel free to check out the HSE Seminar:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2743403.
Slides available in
https://indico.cern.ch/event/968258/.
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What is CARA?
+
What is CARA?
CARA stands for COVID Airborne Risk Assessment and was developed in the spring of 2020 to better understand and quantify the risk of long-range airborne spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus in workplaces. CARA comes with different applications that allow more or less flexibility in the input parameters:
- CARA calculator app
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Parts #1 and #3 are mainly based on methods published in scientific papers (see References), and cover the medical aspects, which is not the core competencies of the authors. The ‘heart and soul’ of CARA lies within the Part #2 and the concentration modelling, which is based on a mass-balance differential equation solved for a constant emission rate and time-dependent exchange rate (e.g. natural ventilation flow rate). Other aspects, e.g., the biological decay of the virus in the air, gravitational settlement of the aerosols, mechanical supply of fresh air, effect of HEPA filtration, among others, are also included.
-What is the aim of CARA?
+What is the aim of CARA?
Although the user is able to calculate the infection probability of a stand-alone event with a pre-defined set of protection measures, the main utility of CARA is to compare the relative impact of different measures and/or combination of measure. For example:
- Compare keeping a window slightly open vs one or two windows open entirely
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- Etc…
-Main Developers:
+Main Developers:
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+Code Contributors:
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+Acknowledgements:
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-References:
+References:
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## Main Developers
-Andre Henriques1, Luis Aleixo1, Marco Andreini1, Gabriella Azzopardi2, James Devine3, Philip Elson4, Nicolas Mounet2, Markus Kongstein Rognlien2,6, Nicola Tarocco5
+Andre Henriques1, Luis Aleixo1, Marco Andreini1, Gabriella Azzopardi2, James Devine3, Philip Elson4, Nicolas Mounet2, Markus Kongstein Rognlien2,6, Nicola Tarocco5
1HSE Unit, Occupational Health & Safety Group, CERN
2Beams Department, Accelerators and Beam Physics Group, CERN
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## Code Contributors
-Anna Efimova1, Anel Massalimova1, Cole Austin Coughlin1
+Anna Efimova1, Anel Massalimova1, Cole Austin Coughlin1
1Summer Students, CERN
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- COVID CALCULATOR
- EXPERT APP (BETA)
- COVID INFORMATION
- - ABOUT
+ - ABOUT