I’ve never really understood how these places, which naturally bring in the sick and unwell by the thousands every single day, eliminate all or any airborne pathogens, viruses that spread via contact with surfaces, or by a patient coughing or sneezing. It’s not like they lock down the whole facility and sanitize it top to bottom every time a new patient comes in, so how come these places don’t become massive hubs for the spread of disease? How are waiting rooms not considered one of the most dangerous places for transmission in the world? What steps are these doctors and professionals in the field taking to ensure that these people who are coming in sick, aren’t making everyone else in the building sick as well?
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I work for a decent size hospital and our latest building built in 2012 has 1 floor out of the 8 floors dedicated to air and the filtration of said air. Every air handler for each floor has a 10×10 room inside of it which has very very powerful UV lights. That along with the massive hepa filters help a lot. Also facilities try their best to keep the hospital fairly cool so that disease doesn’t have to. ability to grow as easy. Then in the really dangerous cases we have negative pressure rooms. These rooms have a system which pulls the air forcefully out of the room into its own filtration system not allowing this dangerous air to escape the room. Hope this helps.
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