Aerosol Production by Children Performing Spirometry and Implications During a Pandemic

Respir Care. 2023 Sep;68(9):1254-1257. doi: 10.4187/respcare.10200. Epub 2023 Apr 11.

Jhill Shah^{1

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3}, Peter P Moschovis¹, Jennifer Rooney⁴, Dilpreet Singh⁵, Philip Demokritou⁵, Lael M Yonker^{1

6

7}, T Bernard Kinane⁸

¹ Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Pediatrics, Emerson Hospital, Concord, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Franciscan Children's Hospital, Brighton, Massachusetts.
⁴ Division of Pediatric Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. kinane.bernard@mgh.harvard.edu.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Particle generation; Spirometry.

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