Strategy for Locating People to Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19 Using Different Interference Measures
COVID-19 is generally transmitted from person to person through small droplets of saliva emitted when talking, sneezing, coughing, or breathing. For this reason, social distancing and ventilation have been widely emphasized to control the pandemic. The spread of the virus has brought with it many ch...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Sustainability 2022-01, Vol.14 (1), p.529 |
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Zusammenfassung: | COVID-19 is generally transmitted from person to person through small droplets of saliva emitted when talking, sneezing, coughing, or breathing. For this reason, social distancing and ventilation have been widely emphasized to control the pandemic. The spread of the virus has brought with it many challenges in locating people under distance constraints. The effects of wakes between turbines have been studied extensively in the literature on wind energy, and there are well-established interference models. Does this apply to the propagation functions of the virus? In this work, a parallel relationship between the two problems is proposed. A mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) model and a mixed-integer quadratic programming model (MIQP) are formulated to locate people to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Both models were constructed according to the distance constraints proposed by the World Health Organization and the interference functions representing the effects of wake between turbines. Extensive computational tests show that people should not be less than two meters apart, in agreement with the adapted Wells–Riley model, which indicates that 1.6 to 3.0 m (5.2 to 9.8 ft) is the safe social distance when considering the aerosol transmission of large droplets exhaled when speaking, while the distance can be up to 8.2 m (26 ft) if all the droplets in a calm air environment are taken into account. |
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ISSN: | 2071-1050 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su14010529 |