As office buildings unveil their plans to reopen, elevator companies are racing to find a way to ensure the safety of their riders
Photo: Jon Feingersh/Getty Images On June 8, New York City entered phase one of its four-phase plan to reopen. But safely shedding the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 is tricky, and one bit of trickiness I’m not sure you’ve spent much time considering is this: Have you thought about how we’re going to go back to using office elevators?
“Despite considerable interaction between workers on different floors of building X in the elevators and lobby, spread of COVID-19 was limited almost exclusively to the 11th floor, which indicates that the duration of interaction was likely the main facilitator for further spreading of SARS-CoV-2.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends taking the stairs when possible, and maintaining six feet of distance. Karen Penafiel, the executive director for the National Elevator Industry Inc. trade association, told Kaiser Health News that she recommends people face the elevator walls and refrain from talking to each other. She admits, though, that this behavior might seem bit odd, socially. “It’s not comfortable.
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