{"id":8142,"date":"2019-10-26T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T06:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2019-10-26T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T06:35:34","slug":"moderate-humidity-decreases-infection-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/26\/moderate-humidity-decreases-infection-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Humidity Decreases Infection Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DNR: Keeping the humidity at 40-60% dramatically decreases airborne infection rates!<\/p>\n<p>Here are snippets from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/leahbinder\/2019\/10\/17\/harvard-researcher-says-this-inexpensive-action-will-lower-hospital-infection-rates-and-protect-us-for-the-flu-season\/?fbclid=IwAR3IfRwHHIncCecmBdV_KfiVp0Kx3HS1hjq8XIQ2BglkkKX3rFHwpyWoGEU#3b7546d71824\">an article in Forbes<\/a>, shown to me by Winnie Chen.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 17, 2019, 09:30am<br \/>\nThis Inexpensive Action Lowers Hospital Infections And Protects Against Flu Season<br \/>\nLeah Binder<br \/>\nHealthcare<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harvard Medical School graduate and lecturer, Stephanie Taylor&#8221; heads this research&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one factor most associated with infection was (drum roll): dry air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taylor finds one of the most interesting studies from a team at the Mayo Clinic, which humidified half of the classrooms in a preschool and left the other half alone over three months during the winter. Influenza-related absenteeism in the humidified classrooms was two-thirds lower than in the standard classrooms\u2013a dramatic difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They used to assume the microbes in desiccated droplets were dead, but advances in the past several years changed that thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DNR: Keeping the humidity at 40-60% dramatically decreases airborne infection rates! Here are snippets from an article in Forbes, shown to me by Winnie Chen. Oct 17, 2019, 09:30am This Inexpensive Action Lowers Hospital Infections And Protects Against Flu Season Leah Binder Healthcare &#8220;Harvard Medical School graduate and lecturer, Stephanie Taylor&#8221; heads this research&#8230; &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}