{"id":22959,"date":"2020-09-22T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T06:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/face-shields-ineffective-trapping-aerosols-japanese-supercomputer-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T06:19:57","slug":"face-shields-ineffective-at-trapping-aerosols-says-japanese-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22959","title":{"rendered":"Face shields ineffective at trapping aerosols, says Japanese supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simulation using world\u2019s fastest supercomputer casts doubt on effectiveness in preventing spread of coronavirus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plastic face shields are almost totally ineffective at trapping respiratory aerosols, according to modelling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, casting doubt on their effectiveness in preventing the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A simulation using Fugaku, the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer, found that almost 100% of airborne droplets of less than 5 micrometres in size escaped through plastic visors of the kind often used by people working in service industries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/face-shields-ineffective-trapping-aerosols-japanese-supercomputer-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simulation using world\u2019s fastest supercomputer casts doubt on effectiveness in preventing spread of coronavirusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePlastic face shields are almost totally ineffective at trapping respiratory aeros&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,88,512,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-medical-research","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22960,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions\/22960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}