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PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH - Bruno Andreotti (LPENS)
SARS-CoV-2 at the crossroads between epidemiology, biology and aerosol turbulence
Five epidemic waves have occurred in 2022, with the second autumn wave (BQ.1.1) currently in decline. The 2023 waves will be made up of a soup of sub-variants showing an evolutionary convergence giving them an immune escape in the upper respiratory tract (XBB.1.5 will become the dominant strain in january). I will provide a synthesis of the mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, detailing the evidence for a majority of transmission of the virus by aerosol - like cigarette smoke. I will then present a 'journal club' on the associated short and long term pathologies of Covid lung, brain and cardiovascular disease, and what is known about vaccine protection. I will detail the three well-documented pathways of injury in the brain : direct infection, cytokine storm-induced immune dysregulation and cardiovascular effect. Finally, I will present the work carried out on behalf of French shopping centres on the transmission risk assessment and non-medical methods to effectively protect against airborne transmission. I will conclude with the role that we as physicists can play in the development and certification of reasonably priced air purifiers, e.g. marketable kits : HEPA filter and UV-C purifiers.
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)
