The Pathway to Clean Indoor Air in Victoria could speed up the end of the current pandemic and help us prepare for the next one. But improving indoor air quality won't just bring health benefits — it could also boost businesses' bottom lines.
Hand sanitiser. After several Australian water polo players tested positive for COVID in Paris last week, Olympics officials were pressed for details on how they would be mitigating viral transmission at the summer games., and wash their hands regularly with soap and water or hand sanitiser. "Hand sanitiser stations can be found at all the residential areas and also the restaurant of the Olympic Village.
The $9.9 million project is significant not just because it could speed up the end of the current pandemic and help us prepare for the next one.
Air free from contamination is as invisible as uncontaminated water, but the case for air isn't yet as widely accepted as the case for water.of investing in ventilation and filtration in American buildings was 1:10 — just from reducing the risks of COVID infection alone. Dr Bruns calculated it would cost US$4 billion to improve indoor air quality in all buildings for 16 weeks over winter each year, when respiratory virus transmission is high, delivering a benefit of about $40 billion.
"If that's where the recommendations go, this will change the way we establish buildings and how we treat indoor air quality. And it will essentially stop people getting ill in the first place. It's about prevention."Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawksa, a renowned atmospheric physicist at Queensland University of Technology and one of the Pathway to Clean Indoor Air's research partners, said improving indoor air quality.
For that reason, she said, the Victorian Government's leadership here is "an extremely important step forward, setting a model for the rest of the country and for the world".Another obstacle may be the reluctance of some scientists to recognise the consequences of poor indoor air quality, and the nature of aerosol transmission of viruses — perhaps because doing so would require substantive action, not hectolitres of hand sanitiser.
"So as climate and environmental change … take hold, you're not going to be outdoors with those asthma thunderstorms, with bushfire smoke … with the wild weather that is going to happen more and more frequently," Professor Crabb said. "You're going to be indoors, and the dream is to have indoor spaces be a true safe haven from those direct threats, and the indirect threat of having lots of people gathering inside.
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