CDC warns of “alarming” rise of potentially deadly fungal threat in hospitals
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COVID 19 also spread almost entirely through airflow.
I think we have an airflow problem in our hospitals (and other public places)
Luckily, that's quite cheap to fix. HEPA filtration is sufficient for both problems (no need to bring outdoor air in).
We should probably be:
* Mandating that all hospitals filter all air every 10 minutes. That could be simply a matter of buying bedside standalone air filters for every bed. They aren't medical devices, so will probably cost <$20 per bed, available from Amazon tomorrow.
* Start a study of air refreshes per hour Vs infection rate for various airborne pathogens. These studies typically can't be done for ethics reasons today - it wouldn't meet ethics standards to deliberately infect someone with something harmful. However this is happening hundreds of millions of times per year already, so I think it is in everyone's best interests to do the science to understand it so we can prevent disease spread.
You don't need to deliberately infect people.
Right now hospital air is not being filtered anywhere as far as I Understand.
You could start installing air filters in hospitals and have some other hospitals as a control group.
You closely monitor how much air is filtered, which filters are in use, and leave some hospitals unfiltered.
You might find out that filtering works. Or only certain filters work. Or that filtering spreads disease through air movement.
Or a mix of these, maybe disease x goes down while y goes up.
And the possibility of this would be what wouldn't pass any ethics committee...
Ozone will destroy life it contacts and also leaves a spotless palate for the nose. this is a hospital problem. Im reading about issues in hospitals. In the outside world it is not a sterile dish like there, this allegedly deadly mold would be less apt to kill