*Result*: A USER-FRIENDLY TOOL TO COMPUTE INFECTION PROBABILITY OF SARS-COV-2 INDOOR: THE USER GUIDE AND ITS APPLICATION IN MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Title:
A USER-FRIENDLY TOOL TO COMPUTE INFECTION PROBABILITY OF SARS-COV-2 INDOOR: THE USER GUIDE AND ITS APPLICATION IN MEDICAL PRACTICE.
Source:
Journal of Mechanics in Medicine & Biology; Aug2023, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p1-15, 15p
Database:
Biomedical Index

*Further Information*

*After some initial hesitancy at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the academic community agreed that the infection process is mostly airborne and generally associated with closed environments. Therefore, assessing the indoor infection probability is mandatory to contain the spread of the disease, especially in those environments, like school classrooms, hospital wards or public transportation, with higher risk of overcrowding. For this reason, we developed a software tool in Python to compute infection probability and determine those mechanisms that contribute to reduce its diffusion in closed settings. In this paper, we will briefly illustrate the model we used and focus our attention on the description of the main features of the software and give some examples of how it can be used in clinical practice to predict the spread of the disease in the rooms of a generic ward, optimize room occupancy or drive healthcare workers activity schedule. Finally, some limitations and further implementations of our work will be reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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