By now, some of us have experienced a person inside a business shamelessly not wearing a face mask. Masks do a decent job at keeping the coronavirus from spreading into the environment. But, if an infected person is inside a building, inevitably some virus will escape into the air, writes Shelly Miller, mechanical engineering professor, University of Colorado Boulder.
The safest indoor space is one that constantly has lots of outside air replacing the stale air inside” – Shelly Miller
Source: The Conversation, August 10, 2020. Link. By paying attention to air circulation and filtration, improving them where you can and staying away from places where you can’t, you can add another powerful tool to your anti-coronavirus toolkit.
Air filtration alone is pretty ineffective. Treating air as it leaves the air handler into the plenum is where U/V treatment as well as ionization and adding ozone really effectively kills spores, viruses, bacteria, and even allergens. We installed these in all of our HVAC systems–why not?
I’m surprised that no one has looked at this modality for potentially managing atopy in dogs and cats. Still hypothetical, but novel to treat the problem rather than the symptom don’t you think?
Good feedback! Thank you.