#eLife

[pandemic-info]

Interesting: association between humidity & acute COVID infection outcomes.

Key text:

we found intermediate RH (40–60%) to be robustly associated with better COVID-19 outbreak outcomes (versus RH < 40% or >60%). Together, these results suggest that indoor conditions, particularly indoor RH, modulate the spread and severity of COVID-19 outbreaks.

This is consistent with physics & past studies;

Linsey Marr says:

[Aerosols] stay aloft more at RH < 40%, but the virus may maintain its infectivity longer at these conditions. 40-60% is considered the sweet spot for more rapid virus decay, but there's still a lot we don't understand about this relationship.

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Related: https://elifesciences.org/articles/65902

Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses

Table 1:

Overall, virus decay became markedly faster as temperature increased for all humidities, with decay at 27°C roughly five to ten times faster than decay at 10°C. Across temperatures, virus decay was relatively rapid at 65% RH and tended to be slower either at lower (40%) or higher (85%) humidities, or when excess water was present during the evaporation phase

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Possible takeaways: keep indoor humidity ~50% + maintain good ventilation; get or make a filter if you can.

[daiwild]

i haven't finished ggxrd yet but

[lets-get-lit]

It can be really exasperating to look back at your past. What’s the matter with you? I want to ask her, my younger self, shaking her shoulder. If I did that, she would probably cry. Maybe I would cry, too.

- Elif Batuman, The Idiot

[genterie]

@linaluvsbooks on instagram

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Elif Varol Ergen

[bahar-misali-blog]

Gözlerinle görmediğin ama sesini duyduğun,

varlığıyla huzur bulduğun bir denizin yakınında yürümek gibidir uzaktan sevmek.

#huzurla... ☕️🌹

[thoughtkick]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[fluorescencefuture]

ishtar

[1-800-daylon]

[perfectquote]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[stay-close]

If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

[gacougnol]

Elif Sanem Karakoç

Save the Girl

[quotespile]

Weeping, a powerful physical process that was normally out of the question, became a constant possibility.

Elif Batuman, Either/Or

[strokeofserenity]

Jodi Picoult // Elif Shafak

[zerrissener]

man verändert sich wenn man am ende ist

- elif