I don't think we needed a formal study to prove this 😉https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288352
If you'd have told me 2 or 3 years ago that a real-time wastewater surveillance algorithm would become the primary way to detect Covid on the rise, I wouldn't have believed it. 🧪 But it is now: https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216021120
I used track.goodfeeds.cohttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/b27029eae634 It's currently tracking Air Quality, AirQuality, and Atmospheric Chemistry (we get three choices)- let's see how this goes
I finally got an official fit test with my N95. Passed! Here, they spray a very bitter solution into the hood and see if I can taste it. Previously, I tested the N95 in the lab by measuring particles inside and out and found it was >99.5% effective.
Tips on prepping your home to deal with wildfire smoke: close windows, use high MERV filters and run fan = whole house air cleaner, run portable HEPA filter on high, build Corsi-Rosenthal box if you want a lower-cost portable air cleaner.
With the recent wildfires in Canada impacting the air in the Midwest and Northeast and the wildfires that burn in the West, experts offer tips to improve your indoor air quality
Here we go again with wildfire smoke. We closed the windows and turned on our HEPA air cleaner. https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#4.58/39.43/-83.22
Real-time SARS-CoV-2 detection of in the indoor air https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39419-z could be adapted for flu, RSV, and other respiratory pathogens
What's inside? A Sioutas impactor, pump, battery, electronics to control sampling for certain wind directions. He designed and built five of these!
Research in action: PhD student David Kormos opening up a custom-designed sampler to retrieve size-segregated particle samples collected near a swine farm. We're looking into atmospheric transport of antibiotic resistance genes.
