1/ Don't be fooled by some air cleaning companies that claim their device is highly efficient. When claims are made about removing 95% or 99% of particles from air, this nearly always refers to % of particles removed THAT FLOW THROUGH THE DEVICE (single pass removal efficiency).
2/ A device can be 99.5% efficient & highly INEFFECTIVE if it has little flow moving through it. The product of fractional removal efficiency (max = 1.0) & volumetric flow rate (e.g. cubic feet per minute) is the important parameter (& known as CADR or Clean Air Delivery Rate).
3/ Example - Company for device 1 claims it removes 99.5% of particles from air (fractional single-pass removal efficiency = 0.995), but the device moves only 30 cfm of air (CADR = 0.995 x 30 cfm = 30 cfm).
4/ Device 2 removes only 60% of aerosol particles from air (fractional removal efficiency = 0.60) but moves 500 cfm of air (CADR = 0.6 x 500 cfm = 300 cfm). In this case, I want the far less efficient device, which is actually far more effective for particle removal from air.
5/ Be effective. Just do it!

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1/ Inhalation Dose
It's been about inhalation dose from day 1. We have not kept our eye on the ball. Critical pre-vaccination. Critical post-vaccination. Been writing & speaking about this for nearly 20 mos. Reducing inhalation dose is a must. Come on folks, just do it!
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3/ Inhalation dose associated with virus laden aerosol particles is defined by the same variables (whether close contact or far field ---- don't bicker about one or the other - I've previously tweeted about this):

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2/ My message will be clear. Stay safe. Stay focused. Learn the fundamental principles and tools of your trade as you will be able to use these to change society for the better and to help heal the planet.
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1/ As a follow-up to my earlier email ....
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