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Air-conditioning also removes humidity from the air. On a tangent, I'd love to see a graph of illnesses during summer before / after the widespread adoption of
by et-al 7y ago
Air-conditioning also removes humidity from the air.
On a tangent, I'd love to see a graph of illnesses during summer before / after the widespread adoption of AC.
- mrfusion 7y agoSomeone could do a study of schools with broken ACs. That might be an easy way to study it.
- robjan 7y agoI don't think a school would operate with broken AC
- inferiorhuman 7y agoAt least in the US plenty of schools in hot climates do not have A/C. https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-too-hot-to-learn-records-show-nearly-a-dozen-of-the-biggest-school-districts-lack-air-conditioning/ https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-too-hot-to-le... Even those that do have A/C don't cancel class when it breaks. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/09/11/ac-outages-some-brevard-schools-due-aging-broken-equipment/2285941001/ https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/09/11... The real takeaway from the 74 Million piece is that information about HVAC in American schools is difficult to come by. It would certainly be interesting to look at COVID-19 in schools vis-a-vis A/C, but good luck prying information from the school districts about either infections or air conditioning. Perhaps it would be easier in a tropical country like SG where A/C is more of a necessity than a luxury.
- ValentineC 7y agoMost public schools in Singapore don't have A/C in most of their classrooms.