Crowding has consequences: Prevention and management of COVID-19 in informal urban settlements

von Seidlein, Lorenz; Alabaster, Graham; Deen, Jacqueline; Knudsen, Jakob

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107472

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Crowding has consequences: Prevention and management of COVID-19 in informal urban settlements

Published in Building and Environment • Nov 22, 2020

Authors:

Lorenz von Seidlein

Graham Alabaster

Jacqueline Deen

Abstract

COVID-19 spreads via aerosols, droplets, fomites and faeces. The built environment that facilitates crowding increases exposure and hence transmission of COVID-19 as evidenced by outbreaks in both cool-dry and hot-humid climates, such as in the US prison system and dormitories in Singapore, respecti...

Subject

Overcrowding

Slum

Sanitation

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