Did you know that turning on an air conditioner indoors can help spread the Covid-19 virus? A 2021 study established that an air conditioner can spread the virus when turned on in a room where doors and windows are completely closed.
What does that mean for Covid-19 patients forced into isolation in the same house as their family members? In essence, it implies that patients should avoid turning on their air conditioner and open all the windows to allow the free flow of air in and out of the room.
Why Your Air Con is Risky
In an air conditioner, there is a part called the air handler. Its purpose is to choose how much fresh air comes into the house. The amount of air coming in from outside depends on whether the weather outside is cold or hot.
An air conditioner is necessary for hotter regions, where temperatures inside and outside the house can get out of hand. In these conditions, the air outside the room is as hot as outside.
Therefore, the air conditioner cannot draw air from outside the house. Instead, it recirculates the air inside the house. The people inside the room end up breathing the same air, which might contain the Covid-19 virus.
If you are in the same house with someone in isolation because of Covid-19, you can end up breathing in the coronavirus they shed as they sneeze, breathe, talk, or cough.
Besides, air conditioners have fans, which blow air around, giving small particles the extra lift to keep suspended in the air for the longest time. Even if an isolated Covid-19 patient is in a separate room, can the moving air carry the pathogens under the door to any location inside the house?
What’s the Best Way to Stay Isolated?
One way to mitigate Covid-19 infection via the air spread via an AC machine is to turn it off and open windows to improve ventilation inside the room.
As an alternative to an air conditioner, you need to use a fan instead. Once you do that, you should turn the fan towards a window instead of the door.
What if you’re a fan is inadequate to cool a patient’s isolation room? Remember, the Covid-19 virus is airborne and trapped in the air-con coil. In that case, you may need a specialist to clean the air-con coils once the isolation period has ended.
Well, there’s a solution!
A new product – Yarrow Coil no Rinse Coil cleaner – can get air-cooled condenser coils cleaned quickly and more efficiently. It successfully removes oxidation film and soil dirt from fins and coils.
In the end, the aluminum coils remain bright and sterilized. Its formulation gives it the power to kill 99.9% of bacteria and viruses. The ability to eliminate mounds from the air-con condenser coils also reduces the incidence of allergic reactions.
So, you no longer have to ditch your air conditioner or call in a cleaning specialist when the isolation period comes to an end. The cleaning agent from Yarrow gets the work done for you.