A UK research team has discovered that the more CO2 air contains, the longer viruses can stay alive in that air. This is a tranmission double-whammy: poorly ventilated spaces with lots of people in them increases potential viral load and longevity. [statnews.com]
CO2 is a good proxy for how much exhaled — and potentially infectious — air is in a room. New research suggests the more CO2 there is, the more virus-friendly the air becomes.
The Germans have a concept of "lüften" where they air out their houses daily and I'm all about it now, too. www.thelocal.de/20220513/ger...
One of the first lessons you learn when living in Germany is that airing out rooms is extremely important.
This is bad journalism. Link to the source so we can actually verify the content. So frustrating. bsky.app/profile/psbr...
The paper is here (royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...). The "new discovery" (June '24) is from last June, 2023 😏 Yay science journalism 👏🏼
The mechanistic factors hypothesized to be key drivers for the loss of infectivity of viruses in the aerosol phase often remain speculative. Using a next-generation bioaerosol technology, we report me...
It's a question of concentration and amount. The article doesn't really say how the marginal increase in CO2 quantitatively affects the transmission. Is it a small increase, is it double? How does that change the virus rates.