{"id":51869,"date":"2020-08-22T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/air-conditioned-rooms-help-spread-covid-19-research-shows\/"},"modified":"2020-08-22T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:59:00","slug":"air-conditioned-rooms-help-spread-covid-19-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/air-conditioned-rooms-help-spread-covid-19-research-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"#Air-conditioned rooms help spread COVID-19, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Air-conditioned rooms help spread COVID-19, research shows<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        August 22, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 11:59am          <\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A new study says relative humidity plays an important role in the spread of coronavirus.\" id=\"standard-article-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/200822-coronavirus-dry-air-study.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" ><\/img><br \/>\n                <span>A new study says relative humidity plays an important role in the spread of coronavirus.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>Tilo Arnhold\/TROPOS<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                        Dry air and air-conditioned rooms can help spread the coronavirus, according to an Indian-German research team that looked at the role of relative humidity in the transmission of infections.<\/p>\n<p>For office workers and students worldwide, the findings are important as they head back to their desks after months in lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of humidity seems to be extremely important to the airborne spread of COVID-19 in indoor environments,\u201d the researchers reported. on the website of Germany\u2019s Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS).<\/p>\n<p>The scientists, who reviewed 10 international studies of swine flu and other infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, found humidity affects a virus in three ways: droplet size, how droplets float and how droplets land on surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>In more humid rooms, virus droplets become heavier and fall faster in higher humidity, \u201cproviding less chances for other people to breathe in infectious viral droplets,\u201d the team wrote, according to DW, a German <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Dry air makes the droplets shrink and hang around, becoming what the scientists describe as an \u201coptimal route\u201d for transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Low humidity also dries out mucous membranes in the nose, making an easier way in for the coronavirus, they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Rooms should have a relative humidity of 40% to 60% \u2014 open the windows, the researchers urge \u2014 to keep a virus from spreading and governments should include the recommendation in any public health guidelines, the team found.<\/p>\n<p>Besides raising the relative humidity and wearing face masks, the scientists are urging businesses and schools to not pack their rooms with people.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; 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