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This Is How Long It Takes to Get COVID in a Room, Research Shows - Best Life

This Is How Long It Takes to Get COVID in a Room, Research Shows - Best Life

This Is How Long It Takes to Get COVID in a Room, Research Shows - Best Life
Dec 01, 2020 1 min, 23 secs

Just because you're wearing a mask and social distancing doesn't mean you're safe from infection.

Now, new research is shedding light on how many minutes it would take to catch COVID from spending time in a room with someone infected with the virus, whether they're close contacts or strangers standing further away.

And for more on the next phase of fighting the pandemic, check out If You're This Age, You May Be Last to Get the COVID Vaccine.

"To protect against airborne transmission, it is common sense that the exposure time, room size, ventilation, and human activity must also be considered," Martin Z.

Also in the same dining room scenario examined by Fast Company, your risk changes drastically with a few other efforts—like if you swap cloth masks for surgical grade ones, that means the amount of safe time you could spend in a room with someone with COVID skyrockets to a full two hours.

When accounting for people in the room pulling their face covering below their nose or wearing a mask that doesn't fit properly, the amount of safe time again dropped down to just 32 minutes.

And for more on what makes a mask unsafe, check out If Your Face Mask Has One of These, Stop Using It Immediately.

According to Fast Company, changing the settings to mimic a typical 180,000-square-foot Walmart found that it would be safe to spend 68 minutes shopping if 1,000 customers were diligently wearing cotton masks and only one person had COVID.

But at a time when some cities such as Chicago have as many as one in 15 people infected, setting foot inside to shop would be a much riskier scenario.

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