A contractor cleans a subway car at the 96th Street station to control the spread of COVID-19, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in New York. Mass transit systems around the world have taken unprecedented — and expensive — steps to curb the spread of the coronavirus, including shutting down New York subways overnight and testing powerful ultraviolet lamps to disinfect seats, poles and floors.
In Chicago, rail cars are cleaned every day before starting service and are prowled at night by crews wearing backpack-style electrostatic sprayers that cover all interior surfaces with disinfectant. Cleaning a train car at a maintenance yard overnight — or even several times during the day, as New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority does — might not help the transit employee or passenger stuck in close quarters with a coughing person.
“But to what extent are we now overspending, or veering too far into security theater?” Executive Director Nick Sifuentes asked recently. That possibility may be on the horizon. A 2018 study and another published this month, both of which Brenner contributed to, concluded that low levels of a certain type of ultraviolet light, called far-UVC light, can be circulated continuously in an enclosed space and kill some forms of human coronavirus as effectively as conventional UV light — without the harmful effects to human eyes and skin.
Fred Maxik, whose company, Healthe, makes far-UVC light systems that are being used in office buildings and schools, cautioned that far-UVC light is not necessarily a panacea for anxious subway riders.
Yes throughout the world they are doing this 👏
Not in Baltimore
It also subverts crime.
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The way the headline is presented it's like saying 'well, you can't save everyone from the burning building so might as well just give up now'. Why not just take any help and small victory you can get and be thankful for it? Why spin the fact that the subways are clean to be bad
Do y’all ever report good news? Asking for a friend cuz I don’t read your rag
It only takes one person turning their head and coughing, sneezing, wiping their nose, putting their fingers into their mouth then touching a surface etc.... to erase all that deep cleaning. Cleaning is good, but don't be fooled by it. Protect yourself, stay diligent.
Masks don't work
The first house sweeping for 30 years? How nice!
Maybe we can acknowledge that mass transit sucks and the hypercities that require it are bad for human health?
Agreed. People need to be responsible to clean their own surroundings. We’ve found out the hard way. Humans are full of moisture & droplets & gross little bits. Wipe wipe wipe it down.
Moot af
Can we please just let NYC have clean subways? Why do the little thing at the end there? Cleaner subways are better, period. Come on.
Of course cleaning and disinfecting areas reduces the chances of catching COVID-19! Slow day at the AP, huh?
As long as they get the poop off, we're winning.
But yet they next do this during flu season....
They realized cleaning them... would make them cleaner?
'but maybe not as much as you'd think.' so damn negative.
lol jfc
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