Edward A Nardell: If we're going to live with COVID-19, it's time to clean our indoor air properly
, with a lesser amount attributable to direct contact with droplets.
The point of this piece is not to promote a particular company or product. Most of my 40-year career in tuberculosis control focused on engineering and non-engineering control strategies, such as prompt, effective TB treatment, but there was little commercial interest in TB-related products because the market was primarily in poor countries. COVID-19 has changed that.
Installation of two different types of upper-room UVC luminaires at St Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City, OK.Presented with particulate air contamination, a standard engineering response is to filter the air. High-efficiency air filters can be used in building ventilation systems to assure that fewer than 99.9% of respirable-size particles are recirculated back into rooms, essentially converting recirculated air into the equivalent of infection-free outdoor air.
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