Let’s talk about ventilation
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🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Back in early April before much of the country had started wearing masks, we made an episode |
| 0:16.0 | about why we should. |
| 0:17.8 | I spoke to Harvard professor Joe Allen, who specializes in indoor air quality. |
| 0:22.2 | Yeah, that's interesting. |
| 0:23.2 | I forgot. |
| 0:24.2 | That was the early days of mask wearing, right? |
| 0:25.8 | And I came out with a piece that said, you know, the debate is over. |
| 0:28.8 | Which we're a mask at the time that seemed controversial. |
| 0:31.4 | And now I think hopefully everyone realizes that's not so controversial. |
| 0:34.7 | It might be our best way out of this mask. |
| 0:36.9 | But the same thing, I think we're at the similar place now with our buildings as we |
| 0:40.1 | were with masks back in April. |
| 0:42.3 | Joe's not talking about putting masks on our buildings. |
| 0:45.9 | He's talking about ventilation. |
| 0:48.7 | The number one risk factor is time spent indoors. |
| 0:51.6 | In fact, almost every outbreak of three more people is associated with time spent indoors. |
| 0:56.1 | I think the world is just starting to wake up to the fact that airborne transmission |
| 1:00.8 | is happening. |
| 1:02.3 | And now that they're waking up, it's a realization that, whoa, the building actually matters. |
| 1:07.2 | People are starting to say, we better pay attention to things like ventilation and filtration. |
| 1:11.2 | Okay. |
| 1:12.2 | Ventilation and filtration. |
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