We humans stuff ourselves into tight quarters for various reasons. Sometimes we pack by the dozens into airliners bound for Boca. Other times, we’re forced into close proximity as we sit in hospital waiting rooms.
Especially on the heels of a global respiratory disease pandemic, being in such crowded ****** es can induce anxiety. But is the air circulating through airplanes and hospitals swimming with airborne pathogens or other toxic ick, as our imaginations would sometimes have us believe?
According to researchers studying the air quality in those two common proxies for human sardine cans,