The corona virus does not like dry air. Now that it is cold, we turn on the heating in the house and that actually makes the air drier. Time to moisturize.
“As the humidity increases, the saliva droplets become heavier, causing them to settle faster,” says professor of environment and health, Lode Godderis of KU Leuven to HLN. “We produce those droplets when we talk and, for example, sneeze. The virus does not get as far with weighted droplets. If you stay one and a half meters away in an environment with a relative humidity of more than 60 percent, you absorb fewer virus particles. ”
So make sure that the air remains moist. This is possible with humidifiers, but plants also help. And ventilate. “Open the windows for at least fifteen minutes every three hours to get circulation, which reduces the number of virus particles in the air. Humidity also increases. ”
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