Journal Club: “Can a toilet promote virus transmission? From a fluid dynamics perspective”

By David Coil Posted in .Featured Coronavirus

Posted on June 23, 2020

I decided to blog about this article for a few reasons… but I didn’t flag it as a #COVI19 Journal club because while it uses the current pandemic as a hook, this is a simulation and isn’t specific in any way to SARS-CoV-2. So “Can a toilet promote virus transmission? From a fluid dynamics perspective” …

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Toilets dominate environmental detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in a hospital”

By David Coil Posted in .Featured Coronavirus

Posted on April 8, 2020April 18, 2020

Another short #COVID19 Preprint with relevance to the built environment came out yesterday. This one from a hospital in Nanjing, China where they collected 107 samples from the air and various surfaces. Most of those were negative (RT qPCR as usual) but most of the positives were found in the bathroom. Abstract below: Abstract …