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New results show performers’ breath control can prevent disease from spreading
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New results show performers’ breath control can prevent disease from spreading
In an unlikely collaboration, physicists and professional musicians studied how to limit COVID-19’s spread during operatic performances. Hint: It involves instruments wearing masks.
Two new studies provide insights into the efficacy of masks under different usage conditions, results that could help improve strategies for lowering transmission of COVID-19.
John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research Jan. 29, 2021 10 a.m. On April 1, 2020, as the pandemic threatened to overwhelm area hospitals, Andrew Leifer was looking for a way to help. The Princeton University physicist connected with doctors at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia who were working to prevent a looming shortage in machines used to keep patients breathing. Penn Medicine, which runs hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, needed specialized machines to monitor the breathing patterns and flow...