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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Prepared by Battelle, this research briefing provides the latest research on COVID-19 vaccination, variant strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and ventilation that may affect building
operations, policies, and procedures, including:<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vaccines</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Racial and ethnic groups now have similar uptake in receiving vaccines (71% of White adults, 70% of Black adults,
and 73% of Hispanic adults), but there are still large gaps based on partisanship, education level, age, and health insurance status.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Variants</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Recent studies examining mask requirements in K-12 school settings have linked these requirements to lower COVID-19
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ventilation:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> One study looked at impacts of various mitigation measures on long-range and short-range transmission risk.
Increasing ventilation resulted in a 17-fold decrease in risk at long range, but only a 6-fold decrease in risk at close range. Additionally, the benefit of maintaining a 2m or 1m distance was dependent on air turbulence and ventilation rate in the space.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Full briefing is available at
<a href="https://www.oclc.org/realm/research/research-briefing-20211014.html">https://www.oclc.org/realm/research/research-briefing-20211014.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Arlene Weible, MLS (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">Oregon Federal Regional Depository Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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