{"id":2978,"date":"2026-01-01T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:14:51","slug":"healthy-air-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/healthy-air-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy air standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;[When you] wash your hands [in] some building, you don&#8217;t have to say, &#8216;Well, I hope this building has clean water that won\u2019t give me cholera.&#8217; &#8230; because there are standards for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you <em>do<\/em> wonder if the building&#8217;s <em>air<\/em> will give you the flu or covid, because the analogous public health standards are not in place. Ventilation, air filters, and\/or ultraviolet light could solve the problem, but right now &#8220;the air itself is effectively making people sick.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">-Carl Zimmer (via <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/637-air-borne\/transcript\">&#8220;99% Invisible&#8221; ep. 637<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[When you] wash your hands [in] some building, you don&#8217;t have to say, &#8216;Well, I hope this building has clean water that won\u2019t give me cholera.&#8217; &#8230; because there are standards for that.&#8221; But you do wonder if the building&#8217;s air will give you the flu or covid, because the analogous public health standards are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/healthy-air-standards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthy air standards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}