Could poorly ventilated schools breed super-spreader events?
Poorly ventilated schools are a super-spreader event waiting to happen. It may be as simple as opening windows.
Professor Geoff Hanmer, School of Architecture and Emeritus Professor Bruce Milthorpe, Faculty of Science
The evidence for aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is now enough for the Australian Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG), which advises the federal government, to have recently amended its earlier advice that COVID-19 was only spread by contact and droplets.
ICEG … notes the risk may be higher under certain conditions, such as poorly ventilated indoor crowded environments.
“Poorly ventilated indoor crowded environments” accurately describes conditions at many schools. Even in lockdown, schools are still open for children of essential workers and classrooms in use can have relatively high occupancy.
In or out of lockdown, poorly ventilated schools are a super-spreader event waiting to happen.
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