A Multi-Layered Air Defense Model to Protect Shared Air in Critical Infrastructure Sectors

Abstract

We recommend that America adopt a multilayered air protection and mitigation strategy to provide safe fresh indoor air across the 16 designated critical infrastructures. Coupled with traditional public health guidance including testing, contact tracing, social distancing, and isolation of people with known disease or exposure, we further recommend a focus on engineering solutions and administrative controls. These controls, applied in a multilayered and redundant model, at-scale, could provide the public confidence to allow America to fully reopen the economy and sustain our critical infrastructures. Together with personal protective equipment for our most vulnerable populations, we can sustain our country economically while protecting public health and those most vulnerable to this or future diseases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1109781

Entities

People

  • Mark D. Ervin
  • Paul H. Nelson
  • Robert A. Norton
  • Samuel M Galvagno

Organizations

  • Air University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Covid-19
  • Delivery Of Health Care
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Families (Human)
  • First Responders
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hygiene
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Security
  • Public Health
  • Quarantine
  • Sars
  • United States
  • Viral Load
  • Virion
  • Viruses

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  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology