COVID-19
Estimates
Expect a doubling of cases every six days. (1). The number of confirmed deaths in the U.S. doubles every 3 days. (4)
Assuming that only 10% of COVID-19 cases warrant hospitalization, all hospital beds in the U.S. will be filled by about May 10. All hospital bends will be filled by 16 May at a 5% rate.
"..COVID-19 is mainly transmitted through contact with respiratory droplets..". It is possible to catch COVID-19 from someone who has just a mild cough and does not feel ill. Only wear a mask if you are ill with COVID-19 symptoms (especially coughing) or exposed to someone who may have COVID-19. (2)
A high percentage of infected people show no alarming symptoms of COVID-19. (3) 17.9% of the people on the Diamond Princess didn’t have any clinically obvious symptoms.
COVID-19 can last up to three days on plastic and stainless steel surfaces. The coronavirus RNA was found on surfaces of the Princess Cruise ship up to 17 days after passengers disembarked, new research by the CDC shows. (3)
The first confirmed case of CONVID-19 in Berks County was on 18 Mar 2020. The highest percentage of cases in Pennsylvania are in the age range of 25 to 49.
Cases of COVID-19 in Berks County
Cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania
Teknomek hygienic door push plate (silver ion coating)
Larco CopperShield® Push Plate Switches (handicap)
Surfaceskins: Door Pushpad (gel sanitizer)
Surfaceskins round door Pullhandle
Cuverro copper products
Elites STERI-HOLD and STERI-PUSH A Hygienic Door Solution
Richard Jay door handle (Purehold)
References
(2) WHO
(3) CDC
(4) https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data
Product & Service Solutions
Room disinfection via industrial ozone generator
Room disinfection via UVGI torches
Germ Free Surfaces
Silver kills germs when it oxidizes and releases silver ions, which are lethal to bacteria and yeast. ... Nanoparticles of silver, which can occur naturally, are more powerful than bigger particles because their large surface area relative to their mass increases the number of ions released. Prior to the introduction of modern antibiotics, colloidal silver was used as a germicide and disinfectant. With the development of modern antibiotics in the 1940s, the use of silver as an antimicrobial agent diminished. The presence of colloidal silver (99.99% pure silver particles suspended in demineralized water) near a virus, fungi, bacterium or any other single celled pathogen disables its oxygen-metabolism enzyme, its chemical lung, so to say. Silver electroplating involves placing a thin coating of silver onto a product made from another type of metal.
Self-disinfecting surfaces: Review of current methodologies and future prospects
Surfaceskins pad hand disinfectant
CuVerro® bactericidal copper surfaces
Silver Coating Services
Aculon nano silver surface trreatment
Platypus Technologies vapor deposition surface coating
Silver Coated Products
Purehold hygienic door handles
Product Ideas
Hygienic Hand Sanitation Mat
Before / after touching a touch screen, ATM, or any other public object, have a hand sanitizing mat mounted in front of the object that dispenses a virucidal gell that contains 80% alcohol. Already available as Purhold PRO gel-dispensing door handles.