{"id":6157,"date":"2024-03-26T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:50:17","slug":"ventilation-can-reduce-exposure-to-respiratory-viruses-in-indoor-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/26\/ventilation-can-reduce-exposure-to-respiratory-viruses-in-indoor-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventilation Can Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Viruses in Indoor Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/whats-new\/ventilation-respiratory-viruses.html\">CDC<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Levels of respiratory disease continue to decline nationally from the peak around late December. But even as we move past winter, it is important to remember that respiratory viruses are still spreading at elevated levels, with some spreading throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ventilation can reduce respiratory virus transmission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/guidance\/respiratory-virus-guidance.html\">core strategies<\/a>, like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/prevention\/immunizations.html\">vaccination<\/a>&nbsp;and practicing good hygiene, we can protect ourselves and those we care about from respiratory illness. Improving&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/improving-ventilation-in-buildings.html\">ventilation<\/a>&nbsp;is another one of the core strategies that can reduce our risk of catching or spreading respiratory viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good ventilation can help safeguard our health by reducing our exposure to respiratory viruses. People can still get sick after ventilating a space, so it is important to use ventilation as one part of a multi-layered approach to protect ourselves against getting sick from respiratory viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important to take steps to improve ventilation in our homes and other indoor spaces as a core prevention strategy year round, from cold winters to hot summers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/whats-new\/ventilation-respiratory-viruses.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC Levels of respiratory disease continue to decline nationally from the peak around late December. But even as we move past winter, it is important to remember that respiratory viruses are still spreading at elevated levels, with some spreading throughout the year. Ventilation can reduce respiratory virus transmission By using&nbsp;core strategies, like&nbsp;vaccination&nbsp;and practicing good hygiene, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}