UMD's filtration study of musicians and singers

PARTIALLY OPEN - BUT THEDETAILS ON HOW TO RE-STARTEXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIESLIKE CHORUS AND BAND, ARESTILL BEING WORKED OUT.RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITYOF MARYLAND HAVE BEEN WORKINGFOR MONTHS TO SEE HOW PEOPLECAN GET BACK TO WHAT THEY LOVE- SAFELY..

WMAR-2 NEWS JOINSUS LIVE WITH MORE ON WHATTHEY'VE FOUND OUT.

ERIN?THE STUDY IS STILL GOING ONBUT THEY QUICKLY SWITCHED THEFOCUS FROM INSTRUMENTS TO JUSTVOICE AFTER THEY LEARNEDTALKING LOUDLY AND SINGINGRELEASED MORE PARTICLES THANPLAYING AN INSTRUMENT.

THEYSTARTED WITH THE FOCUS ONINSTRUMENTS AND THEN QUICKLYMOVED TO SINGING.

MOSTINSTRUMENTS CAN HAVE THEIR OWNTYPE OF MASK -- A BELL COVERTO KEEP THE PARTICLES FROMSPREADING.

SINGING WITH A MASKON IS A LITTLE MORECHALLENGING.

THEY STUDIED BOTHUSING DIFFERENT METHODS - THEYHAVE MACHINES THAT CALCULATEHOW MANY PARTICLES ARE BEINGRELEASED, THEY USE SMOKE ANDLASERS TO DETECT THE PARTICLESAND A HIGH TECH CAMERA TOCATCH IT ALL SO THEY CAN BREAKIT DOWN.

THEY ALSO TESTEDUSING MAKE SHIFT FILTERS RIGHTNEXT TO THE SINGER - WHICHPROVED TO BE EFFECTIVE, ASLONG AS A FILTER IS NEAR THESOURCE.

Where theyair supply where theyputting people where theyputting people matters a lot.As you can imagine I breathe,air goes by me and goes outitcomes in and moves around tofind somewhere to exhaust...not great THEY ALSO STUDIEDHOW LONG YOU CAN BE IN AFILTERED ROOM TO LIMIEXPOSURE - THEY FOUND 3MINUTES WAS THE BEST, FLUSH ITOUT AND THEN YOU CAN GO FORANOTHER 30.

FOR OUTSIDE IT WAS60 MINUTES AND UNDER A TENTWAS RIGHT IN TEH MIDDLE AT 45.I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST AS GOODAS OPEN AIR - BUT THE TENDSLOWS DOWN AIR FLOW.

THESE ARESOME OF THE PRELIMINARYFINDINGS BUT THEY ARE STILLCONDUCTING RESEARCH.ERIN WHAT IS THE BIGGETAKEAWAY FROM THE STUDY?ULTIMATELY DR. SREBRIC SAYSTHEIR RESEARCH JUST PROVES AWELL FITTED MASK YOU FEELAGAINST YOUR FACE -- OR A MASKFOR YOUR INSTRUMENT IS THEBEST FORM OF PROTECTION -- ANDFILTERS ARE A GOOD IDEA, BUTNOT HELPFUL UNLESS ITSDIRECTLY NEXT TO THE PERSONSPEAKING.

LIVE - EMAC.HALLOWEEN IS JUST OVER TWOWEEKS AWAY..

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