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Researchers investigate ski resorts to assess risk of COVID-19 infection
Where do the greatest risks of infection lurk? How can you protect yourself and others even better? Scientists all over the world are working to expand knowledge about Covid-19 – including at Empa. Researchers are now using measurements and simulations to take a close look at cable cars and cabins in ski resorts.
Covid-19 is difficult to assess, and complex mathematical models to quantify infection risks are ultimate attempts to approximate reality – also in the case of ski resorts and the many people who hang out on the ski slopes.
This is why a team led by Ivan Lunati of Empa s Multiscale Studies in Building Physics lab began its work in precisely this reality: in the cable cars and cabins of the Engelberg-Trübsee-Titlis ski resort.