One person who isn’t quite ready yet to go to the gym or visit a dentist is Allison Bailes. In a recent Energy Vanguard post, he writes, “Yes, the dental hygienist and dentist will be masked up and everything disinfected. But I’ll be lying in that chair for a while with my mouth open while another patient is in the room next door also lying in the chair with their mouth open. Would I be lucky enough to be there when no infected person is there? Probably. And maybe they have a ventilation and filtration system up to the task. But I haven’t wanted to take that risk.”
Are our efforts to disinfect surfaces and maintain social distancing to avoid catching COVID-19 misguided? Maybe…Bailes cites one study that states that aerosol transmission of COVID-19 is far greater (85%) than droplet transmission (15%). The takeaway: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is higher indoors than outdoors, and can be substantially reduced by effective indoor ventilation.