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Aerosol emission of adolescents voices during speaking, singing and shouting

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, singing activities for children and young people have been strictly regulated with far-reaching consequences for music education in schools and ensemble and choir singing in some places. This is also due to the fact, that there has been no reliable data a...

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Autores principales: Mürbe, Dirk, Kriegel, Martin, Lange, Julia, Schumann, Lukas, Hartmann, Anne, Fleischer, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246819
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Kriegel, Martin
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Schumann, Lukas
Hartmann, Anne
Fleischer, Mario
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description Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, singing activities for children and young people have been strictly regulated with far-reaching consequences for music education in schools and ensemble and choir singing in some places. This is also due to the fact, that there has been no reliable data available on aerosol emissions from adolescents speaking, singing, and shouting. By utilizing a laser particle counter in cleanroom conditions we show, that adolescents emit fewer aerosol particles during singing than what has been known so far for adults. In our data, the emission rates ranged from 16 P/s to 267 P/s for speaking, 141 P/s to 1240 P/s for singing, and 683 P/s to 4332 P/s for shouting. The data advocate an adaptation of existing risk management strategies and rules of conduct for groups of singing adolescents, like gatherings in an educational context, e.g. singing lessons or choir rehearsals.
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spelling pubmed-78754082021-02-19 Aerosol emission of adolescents voices during speaking, singing and shouting Mürbe, Dirk Kriegel, Martin Lange, Julia Schumann, Lukas Hartmann, Anne Fleischer, Mario PLoS One Research Article Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, singing activities for children and young people have been strictly regulated with far-reaching consequences for music education in schools and ensemble and choir singing in some places. This is also due to the fact, that there has been no reliable data available on aerosol emissions from adolescents speaking, singing, and shouting. By utilizing a laser particle counter in cleanroom conditions we show, that adolescents emit fewer aerosol particles during singing than what has been known so far for adults. In our data, the emission rates ranged from 16 P/s to 267 P/s for speaking, 141 P/s to 1240 P/s for singing, and 683 P/s to 4332 P/s for shouting. The data advocate an adaptation of existing risk management strategies and rules of conduct for groups of singing adolescents, like gatherings in an educational context, e.g. singing lessons or choir rehearsals. Public Library of Science 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7875408/ /pubmed/33566852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246819 Text en © 2021 Mürbe et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246819
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