An obsession with surface cleaning may not be the best way to combat the spread.
on some aircrafts to ensure the"deepest cleanings." United noted that it was a complementary technology used in combination with masks and other measures.
The public-facing displays of disinfecting efforts by companies have been dubbed"hygiene theater" in a recent "When you start applying this strategy to the New York City subways for example, public school systems, then it’s starting to be a bad thing, because it's wasting limited resources," he said."In the case of the New York City subways, it's not only a huge hit on their budget, it’s also a tremendous inconvenience on their transportation system to be shut down every night.
Goldman said that he also received an email recently from a teacher who read his research and told him her school board was planning on shutting the schools down one day a week for"deep cleaning." The U.N. health agency also noted that people who come in contact with potentially infectious surfaces often also have close contact with an infected person, making distinctions between respiratory droplet and fomite transmission difficult to discern.
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