4/ (only people who have had a booster more than 2 weeks ago & less than 3 months ago are likely to have high levels of immunity to Omicron)
5/ (as Omicron is much more transmissible than Delta, it’s likely more than 17 will have caught the virus)
6/ min. ventilation of 6 air changes per hour is advised; if not available, filtration could give added ‘air cleaning’ equivalent to 3 more air changes per hour
7/ clean air standards can lower risk in all buildings.. clean air standards give all businesses a road map to permanent opening without risk of super-spread.. for protection of staff & confidence of customers. #CovidIsAirborne
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#1 VENTILATION is very important, we need oxygen to function. Even before Covid, stuffy classrooms meant sleepy children, poor learning & more illness. DO NOT seal up rooms
#2 FILTRATION is another layer of protection & ...
.. & may mean that a higher reading on a CO2 monitor is ok
CO2 monitors measure ventilation, not filtration
When a room has filtration it may still have stale stuffy air ..but it’s stale stuffy air that’s had virus removed by a filter (as happens on aircraft)
Here’s a guide:
#3 but WHICH filtration? There are different approaches, both valid:
*crisis action, act fast, take what’s available, quick impact
OR
*long term investment, take care, get it right, more impact (but not yet)
Personally, I favour immediate impact because health trumps money
Lying-in women (maternity) & the ‘offensively’ sick: 1,200 cubic feet (34m3 ≈ 14m2 floor area)
(source: Healthy Houses, 1876)
& it gets better
..the book was written by William Eassie, “late assistant engineer to Renkioi Hospital during the Crimean War”
Renkioi Hospital (1855) was a prefabricated hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with “the necessities of hygiene: sanitation, ventilation, drainage & temperature controls.. integrated in 1,000-patient hospital layout, using 60 of the unit wards” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renkioi_H…
😷 Can you turn your surgical mask into a well-fitting mask? YES with a « mask brace » & free template to make one (see elastic band hack in next tweet)