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VIDEO: QUT air-quality expert Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is leading an international call for a paradigm shift in combating airborne pathogens such as COVID-19. view more
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QUT air-quality expert Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is leading an international call for a paradigm shift in combating airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, demanding universal recognition that infections can be prevented by improving indoor ventilation systems.
Professor Morawska led a group of almost 40 researchers from 14 countries in a call published in
Science for a shift in standards in ventilation requirements equal in scale to the transformation in the 1800s when cities started organising clean water supplies and centralised sewage systems.