From 60 Minutes
With a new strain of COVID on the rise, and flu season just getting started, we thought now would be a good time to consider what the pandemic has taught us about preventing the spread of potentially deadly respiratory infections.
It turns out, viruses like the one that causes COVID-19 can travel through the air much farther than six feet. So public health advice focusing on social distancing, handwashing, and masking wasn’t enough. Air quality scientists say, from the start of the pandemic, it also should have focused on improving the air we all breathe … indoors.
