Hospital simulator to drive down infections

Computer simulations showing how patients and staff move around inside hospitals are helping civil engineers alter buildings to help control the transmission of COVID-19. Similar visualisations could also help schools, offices and care homes lower the risk of infection spread, not just from COVID-19, but from other contagions like Ebola and future viruses. Brunel University London’s modelling highlights how tweaks to entrances and exits, where machines are put and where people interact can make public places more disease-resilient..

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