"Requesting that the WHO produce clear guidelines on the minimum lower limit of air humidity in buildings would contribute to reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses and protect people globally," said Oliver Zimmermann, CEO, Condair Group AG.
We now have the mechanical equipment to create protective buildings, the tools to measure and track the connections between indoor climates, and the computing capabilities to correlate the data to tell us if we are doing things right.
The current illnesses from the new coronavirus outbreak, and the associated human fear, has renewed people’s interest in the potential of the indoor environment to contain disease transmission.
Outbreaks of viral infections are unpredictable. We are currently dealing with one caused by a virus labelled COVID-19 which originated in Wuhan, China.
Continuous airflow measurements during anesthesia monitoring, intensive care treatment, and in clinical and ambulatory environments provide important information for the assessment of cardiorespiratory and breathing circuit behavior.