Delta video of airplane "fogging" disinfecting
Mar 13, 2020, 1:41 pm
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Delta video of airplane "fogging" disinfecting
https://news.delta.com/coronavirus-u...fogging-b-roll
This is a promotional video, but hopefully they are actually doing this on all planes.
This is a promotional video, but hopefully they are actually doing this on all planes.
Mar 14, 2020, 9:25 am
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Now we are going to get the people wanting "organic" cleaners. And they better be gluten free.
Anyway... I agree that I don't want them to do this all the time. But I find it reassuring they are taking extra steps at the moment. Just like at home when I am sick I take extra steps to disinfect, that I otherwise would not.
Mar 15, 2020, 10:32 am
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https://news.delta.com/coronavirus-u...fogging-b-roll
This is a promotional video, but hopefully they are actually doing this on all planes.
This is a promotional video, but hopefully they are actually doing this on all planes.
1) Obviously, I do not know what agent they are fogging with, but I have to wonder about the efficacy of fogging. By comparison, a Lysol-manufactured product that I purchased before everything went crazy instructs that a surface must remain wet for 4 minutes to be effectively disinfected.
2) If fogging is effective, is it (or why is it not) not done routinely during each flu season, regardless of unique considerations such as Covid? "CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010." (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)
Of course, we are talking about an industry (I am not targeting DL alone here) that has trouble keeping its potable water tanks contagion-free.
BTW... if you are following instructions found on the internet to make your own hand sanitizer (mixing alchol and aloe gel, for example), CDC recommends that the alcohol content of the final mix must be at least 60%, by volume.
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Mar 15, 2020, 10:33 am
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Mar 15, 2020, 11:18 am
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Some thoughts:
1) Obviously, I do not know what agent they are fogging with, but I have to wonder about the efficacy of fogging. By comparison, a Lysol-manufactured product that I purchased before everything went crazy instructs that a surface must remain wet for 4 minutes to be effectively disinfected.
2) If fogging is effective, is it (or why is it not) not done routinely during each flu season, regardless of unique considerations such as Covid? "CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010." (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)
Of course, we are talking about an industry (I am not targeting DL alone here) that has trouble keeping its potable water tanks contagion-free.
BTW... if you are following instructions found on the internet to make your own hand sanitizer (mixing alchol and aloe gel, for example), CDC recommends that the alcohol content of the final mix must be at least 60%, by volume.
1) Obviously, I do not know what agent they are fogging with, but I have to wonder about the efficacy of fogging. By comparison, a Lysol-manufactured product that I purchased before everything went crazy instructs that a surface must remain wet for 4 minutes to be effectively disinfected.
2) If fogging is effective, is it (or why is it not) not done routinely during each flu season, regardless of unique considerations such as Covid? "CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010." (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)
Of course, we are talking about an industry (I am not targeting DL alone here) that has trouble keeping its potable water tanks contagion-free.
BTW... if you are following instructions found on the internet to make your own hand sanitizer (mixing alchol and aloe gel, for example), CDC recommends that the alcohol content of the final mix must be at least 60%, by volume.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production...ned-letter.pdf
If you read the label of products that are fogged, most are for "Odor Causing Bacteria" or other non-public health organisms.
Mar 15, 2020, 1:49 pm
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EPA doesn't think there is sufficient evidence that fogging is effective. In fact, they pulled fogging claims back in 2013 for any public health organisms
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production...ned-letter.pdf
If you read the label of products that are fogged, most are for "Odor Causing Bacteria" or other non-public health organisms.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production...ned-letter.pdf
If you read the label of products that are fogged, most are for "Odor Causing Bacteria" or other non-public health organisms.