TY - JOUR AU - Morawska, Lidia AU - Allen, Joseph AU - Bahnfleth, William P. AU - Bluyssen, Philomena M. AU - Boerstra, Atze AU - Buonanno, Giorgio AU - Cao, Junji AU - Dancer, Stephanie J. AU - Floto, Andres AU - Franchimon, Francesco AU - Greenhalgh, Trisha AU - Haworth, Charles AU - Hogeling, Jaap AU - Isaxon, Christina AU - Jimenez, Jose L. AU - Kurnitski, Jarek AU - Li, Yuguo AU - Loomans, Marcel AU - Marks, Guy AU - Marr, Linsey C. AU - Mazzarella, Livio AU - Melikov, Arsen Krikor AU - Miller, Shelly L. AU - Milton, Donald K. AU - Nazaroff, William W. AU - Nielsen, Peter V. AU - Noakes, Catherine J. AU - Peccia, Jordan AU - Prather, Kim AU - Querol, Xavier AU - Sekhar, Chandra AU - Seppänen, Olli AU - Tanabe, Shin-ichi AU - Tang, Julian W. AU - Tellier, Raymond AU - Wai Tham, Kwok AU - Wargocki, Pawel AU - Wierzbicka, Aneta AU - Yao, Maosheng PY - 2021 DA - May TI - A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection JO - Science EP - 691 VL - 372 IS - 6543 DO - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg2025 AB - There is great disparity in the way we think about and address different sources of environmental infection. Governments have for decades promulgated a large amount of legislation and invested heavily in food safety, sanitation, and drinking water for public health purposes. By contrast, airborne pathogens and respiratory infections, whether seasonal influenza or COVID-19, are addressed fairly weakly, if at all, in terms of regulations, standards, and building design and operation, pertaining to the air we breathe. We suggest that the rapid growth in our understanding of the mechanisms behind respiratory infection transmission should drive a paradigm shift in how we view and address the transmission of respiratory infections to protect against unnecessary suffering and economic losses. It starts with a recognition that preventing respiratory infection, like reducing waterborne or foodborne disease, is a tractable problem. PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science UR - http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2772556 KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19) ER