The goal of these FAQs is to provide information to the general public in an efficient manner about how to prevent aerosol transmission of COVID-19, with the hope that this will allow more informed decision making by individuals or organizations.
Scientists and engineers with many years of collective research experience related to indoor air quality, aerosol science, aerosol disease transmission, and engineered control systems for aerosols.
These contributors are active researchers investigating aerosol transmission of COVID-19 (see e.g. 1, 2, 3, and 4).
Five were speakers at the recent Workshop on Airborne Transmission of COVID-19, organized by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the highest level scientific organization in the US).
Three are members of a COVID-19 World Health Organization expert group.
Specifically, the writers of these FAQs include Professors :
Prof. Linsey Marr
Virginia Tech, Fellow ISIAQ
Prof. Shelly Miller
CU Boulder, Fellow ISIAQ
Prof. Kimberly Prather
UC San Diego, Fellow AAAS & AGU, NAE & NAS, CAICE Director)
Prof. Charles Haas
Drexel University, Fellow AAM & SRA
Prof. William Bahnfleth
Penn State, Fellow ASHRAE, ASME & ISIAQ, Chair of ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force
Prof. Richard Corsi
Portland State, President ISIAQ Fellows
Prof. Julian Tang
Univ. of Leicester & UK National Health Svce, Clinical/Academic Virologist/Physician, Fellow RCP-Virology
Prof. Hartmut Herrmann
Dept. Head, Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), University of Leipzig; Head Joint Working Party ‘PM’ of GDCh, KRDL and ProcessNet
Prof. Krystal Pollitt
School of Public Health, Yale University, Chair of Health-Effects Working Group AAAR
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez
CU Boulder, Highly Cited Researcher (h-index = 121), Fellow AAAR & AGU
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