The study has been highly valued by the Academy for its contribution to the improvement of hospitals’ indoor air quality and the prevention of infection among the medical staff. Source: Wikipedia.
The Academy of Medical and Health Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands (Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears) has given the 2022 Research Award to the IDAEA researchers Joan O. Grimalt, Esther Marco, and Barend L. van Drooge for the scientific article on the spread of Covid-19 in hospital areas conducted between November and December 2020.
The work was developed by IDAEA-CSIC in collaboration with the Hospital Son Espases (Mallorca) and consisted of a new methodology to measure the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the air of hospitals. The study showed that the air in the corridors may have had higher levels of viruses than in rooms with Covid-19 patients. This result was explained by the fact that rooms had individual ventilation systems, while corridors had only one system for every four rooms.
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, these results were crucial because many precautions were taken to enter the hospital rooms, but less in the corridors“, emphasizes the first author of the work and IDAEA-CSIC researcher, Joan O. Grimalt
The study’s results have been highly valued by the Academy for their contribution to the improvement of hospitals’ indoor air quality and the prevention of infection among the medical staff.
Nota de prensa del estudio (ESP)
Nota de premsa de l’estudi (CAT)
