{"id":764,"date":"2021-01-27T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hvacquick.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2021-01-27T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:37:37","slug":"to-hepa-or-not-to-hepa-no-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/archives\/to-hepa-or-not-to-hepa-no-question","title":{"rendered":"To HEPA or not to HEPA &#8211; no question !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following article  from the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene makes a compelling case for adding HEPA filtration to indoor environments in order to greatly reduce the chance of Covid spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article has a couple of important points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on their model, an office worker has a 40% chance of  contracting Covid when sharing an office with an infected worker &#8220;Even with use of N95 masks in this scenario&#8221; after 1 week of exposure !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By combining HEPA filtration (12 Air Change per Hour &#8211; 12 ACH), the probability of contracting Covid from the office environment over a<strong> 6 month period drops to 0.003%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15459624.2020.1805117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/showCoverImage?doi=10.1080\/uoeh20.v017.i10\" alt=\"Publication Cover\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conclusion: Use HEPA filtration in indoor environments in this time of panemic, and continue to use to avoid other airborne pathogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article from the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene makes a compelling case for adding HEPA filtration to indoor environments in order to greatly reduce the chance of Covid spread. The article has a couple of important points. Based on their model, an office worker has a 40% chance of contracting Covid when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169,170,167,166,148,93,90,144,146,63,168],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ach","tag-air-changes-per-hour","tag-contagion","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-filter","tag-filtration","tag-hepa","tag-hepa-filter","tag-iaq","tag-n95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hvacquick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}