{"id":391491,"date":"2021-04-30T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=391491"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:30:21","slug":"a-safer-way-to-ride-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-safer-way-to-ride-share\/","title":{"rendered":"A safer way to ride share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in a car with other people increases the risk of contracting airborne infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. So is it possible to safely take a taxi or offer a ride to a friend? To find out, physicist Varghese Mathai, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and his colleagues performed computer simulations of the airflow and movement of particles and aerosols in a car carrying two people. They concluded that the best way to reduce the risk is to keep all windows open. When that is not possible\u2014on a rainy day, for example\u2014the most efficient measure is to open the windows farthest from the occupants: the right front and the left rear, if the passenger\u00a0is sitting on the right in the rear seat (<em>Science Advances<\/em>, January 1). This creates an airflow barrier between the driver and the passenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Always open car windows to reduce the risk of being infected by the novel coronavirus","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":390973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[229],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-391491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-epidemiology","keywords-coronavirus-en","keywords-covid-19-en","keywords-sars-cov-2-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391492,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391491\/revisions\/391492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=391491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}