All of the rooms in the local ER have isolate air systems in them
The outdated hospital in my neighborhood has been around for the past more than five decades.
A lot of the construction is apparently outdated despite their unsuccessful attempts to modernize the campus over the years.
For one thing, there was a mold problem affecting numerous wings of the outdated hospital so they had to tear down that area plus rebuild. The problem is that the air going through those sections of the hospital were on shared air systems with the rest of the hospital. So in actuality, the remaining wings of the hospital were potentially exposed to mold spores from the area that was torn out plus rebuilt. I can still smell the mildew smell on that hospital, plus this is years after the supposed “repairs” were made to the then affected wings of the hospital. I know the whole hospital is affected at this point. Thankfully, a brand new hospital was built on the opposite side of the neighborhood over the past 2 years plus it’s finally open. This new hospital had the benefit of being designed plus built after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic so they created rooms plus wings that have isolated air by design. Even the individual rooms in the emergency room all have isolated air systems in them. If a single patient has COVID-19, the isolated heating plus cooling systems will prevent that virus from entirely spreading to other patients. That’s unluckyly what happens in nursing homes that lack isolated ventilation systems for their a/cs plus furnaces. I think much safer being in the new hospital as opposed to the outdated one, especially when I think back to the mold concerns from before plus never wanting to get exposed to that again willingly.