The University Of Utah: Air Flow Study In Science Advances

Press release from The University of Utah:

July 6, 2021

Last year, University of Utah chemical engineering professor James Sutherland and assistant professor Tony Saad conducted a series of airflow studies inside Abravanel Hall and the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City—home of the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera—and discovered that steps can be taken to help mitigate the spread of a virus beyond just separating everyone via social distancing. Their results revealed these strategies can reduce aerosol concentrations in the breathing zone as well as the probability of infection by a factor of 100.

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