All of the rooms in the local ER have isolate air systems in them
The old hospital in my city has been around for the past six decades.
A lot of the construction is obviously old despite their unsuccessful attempts to modernize the campus over the years. For one thing, there was a mold problem affecting several wings of the old hospital so they had to tear down that section and 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 section that was torn out and rebuilt. I can still smell the mildew odor on that hospital, and this is years after the supposed “repairs” were made to the then affected wings of the hospital. I assume the whole hospital is affected at this point. Thankfully, a brand new hospital was built on the opposite side of the city over the past two years and it’s finally open. This new hospital had the benefit of being designed and built after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic so they created rooms and 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 and cooling systems will prevent that virus from easily spreading to other patients. That’s unfortunately what happens in nursing homes that lack isolated ventilation systems for their air conditioners and furnaces. I feel much safer being in the new hospital as opposed to the old one, especially when I think back to the mold problems from before and never wanting to get exposed to that again willingly.