Business, Ventilation, and Health—Can We Have Them All?

The author talks about the opening comments by Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator, at the 2022 White House Summit on Indoor Air Quality wherein she reflected on the history of public health advances. Topics include explanation by Jha on waterborne pathogens, the 1852 public lecture on ventilation by physician and public health advocate John Hoskins Griscom Jr., and difference between the history of ventilation and the history of water supply in the U.S.