Ventilation can reduce the number of airborne virus particles by exhausting them out of an indoor space. You can’t see ventilation, but you can measure it!
Use Mechanical Ventilation
Ventilation can reduce the number of virus particles by exhausting out of an indoor space. Using mechanical fans to ventilate ensures that fresh outdoor air is brought in and that stale air and pollutants, including virus particles, are exhausted out.
How Ventilation Reduces Exposure to COVID-19
Ventilation can reduce the number of airborne virus particles by exhausting them outdoors, thus reducing exposure to people indoors.
Why Handwashing Works to Prevent COVID-19
When you have direct personal contact with an infected person or touch a surface that has virus on it, the virus particles will “stick” to the oil on your skin and remain there until washed off. Soap has physical properties that loosen the particles from your skin. When you rinse your soapy hands, you wash the soap and virus particles away.
Soap Science & COVID-19
A hodgepodge of articles discussing how soap both cleans virus from your skin as well as destroys it. How Handwashing with Soap Kills Coronavirus- NewYork-Presbyterian (nyp.org) Soap-ology: Quick Facts About Soap and How it Protects You from Infection – Daily Nurse Soap Minimizes Coronavirus Risk (revoscience.com) How Soap Kills COVID-19 on Hands (unesco.org) Why Soap […]
Physical Distance: 6 Feet or More
COVID Tip Tuesday Post for December 14, 2020 Learn more: From US CDC: Social Distancing (cdc.gov) MIAQC Resources Page: COVID-19 Resources Page – Maine Indoor Air Quality Council Explore the Science: Scientific Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Potential Airborne Transmission | CDC Social distancing is just one way to reduce exposure to COVID-19 when indoors. Stay tuned […]
Why wear a mask?
COVID Tip Tuesday Post for December 8, 2020 Learn more: From US CDC: COVID-19: Considerations for Wearing Masks | CDC MIAQC Resources Page: COVID-19 Resources Page – Maine Indoor Air Quality Council Explore the Science: Scientific Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 | CDC Wearing a mask is just […]
Ventilation Measurements Webinar 4/8/2020
Registration is open for the April 8th webinar on ventilation measurements. It’s easier than you might think! Go to: www.maineindoorair.org/ventilationmeasurements to register.
A Practical, Easily-Built Wall System: R-30 and Beyond
by MIAQC Members David Johnston (David Johnston & Co.) and William A. Turner, P.E. (Turner Building Science & Design) Abstract The adoption of the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code has special ramifications for Climate Zones 6, 7, and 8. As shown in Table R402.1.2, IECC 2015, Zones 6,7, and 8 are effectively precluded from using […]
October 2019 Issue of The Informer
The quarterly newsletter of the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council President’s Message October is Indoor Air Quality Awareness Month (who knew?), and I find it fitting that the Council has moved its signature event, the IAQ & Energy Conference from the Spring to the Fall. The Conference is the largest piece of work output we […]
