Coronavirus is in the air. There’s too much focus on surfaces.
This lack of clarity about the risks of fomites compared with the much bigger risk posed by transmission through the air has serious implications. People and organizations continue to prioritize costly disinfection efforts, when they could be putting more resources into emphasizing the importance of masks, and investigating measures to improve ventilation. The latter will be more complex but could make more of a difference.
The New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority alone estimates that its annual COVID-related sanitation costs will be close to US$380 million between now and 2023. Late last year, the authority asked the US federal government for advice on whether to focus solely on aerosols. It was told to concentrate on fomites, too, and has so far directed more resources towards cleaning surfaces than tackling aerosols.
By Mark Robertson
Feb 4, 2021
A worker with New York City s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is being applauded for climbing into a sidewalk vent near a subway station to find an heirloom ring dropped by a pedestrian. The MTA said Shawn Fallon, a Maintenance of Way infrastructure supervisor, rushed into action when he heard a woman had dropped her grandmother s ring into a vent near Manhattan s Grand Central Terminal. Fallon climbed into the vent and was able to find the ring and return it to the grateful woman. The MTA dubbed Fallon the hero of the week and thanked him for going above and beyond for a resident.
Wellness4Humanity: Biotechnology Meets The Live Event Space. New York City Flagship Store Opens January 25th, 2021
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Wellness4Humanity’s New York City (NYC) flagship location opens at 225 West 34th Street near Pennsylvania Station in the heart of Herald Square in the two-story high-impact space formerly occupied by Lane Bryant. TRUSTPASS TM is the proprietary system created by Wellness4Humanity Laboratories, a network of F.D.A. E.U.A.-approved medical facilities headquartered in Houston, TX.
Wellness4Humanity s COVID-19 test kit vending machines (FDA EUA approved)
As approved COVID-19 vaccines slowly become available to the public, it’s a fact that a substantial portion of the general population will continue to refuse vaccination. Wellness4Humanity recognizes that frequent and reliable testing for COVID-19 will remain critical into the future.
SEPTA union says quarantine leave policy not enough
By CLAUDIA LAUERDecember 22, 2020 GMT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) In late March, as leaders for Philadelphia’s regional mass transit authority prepared to unroll restrictions on boarding buses, requirements for cleaning and rider mask mandates to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Anthony Bowman struggled to get comfortable amid a fever and shortness of breath unlike anything he had ever experienced.
It took nearly a month for the 59-year-old station attendant to feel well enough to return to work. It wouldn’t be his last brush with the coronavirus as a frontline worker, but it would be his last fully paid leave to deal with possible exposure to the virus.
BREAKING: As the American people continue battling the coronavirus this holiday season, they will not be on their own.
Congress has just reached an agreement. We will pass another rescue package ASAP. More help is on the way.
.@senatemajldr: “Let’s Make Today the Day We Join Together, Put Differences Aside, & Finally Get it Done” https://t.co/xdGfjjfAsE Another targeted package to for the job-saving Paycheck Protection Program, extend unemployment benefits, fund K-12 schools, fund vaccine distribution
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also made no mention of ostensibly public health-related lockdown or shutdown decrees against businesses and other organizations while referring to small business and restaurant owners. He described the legislative deal as “emergency aid”: