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An Air-Raising Experience at the Orpheum Theatre


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A field trip to the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver to learn more about their ventilation system, built after the 1918 flu pandemic. 

Ladies and Gentlethems, the show you’ve all been waiting for, the show that will keep you glued to your seat! A show all about preventing diseases and pathogens and, sometimes, things that go bump in the night. 

Join Daniella on a journey through the belly of an old vaudeville venue, the Orpheum Theatre, in Vancouver, Canada, to learn a bit about how it keeps pathogens in the air at bay. We've known that fresh air is good for us for a very long time but it doesn't always translate to the air we breathe indoors. We also meet a savvy Twitter/X user who measured the carbon dioxide levels in the theatre and, to the surprise of many, revealed that the Orpheum had excellent ventilation. How does a building so old get such good numbers? And what could it mean for disease control in other places?

Transcript HERE

RESOURCES
Photos from the Orpheum tour HERE 
Much more information and detail about ventilation, viral viability, and why it's important to reduce C02 from the Clean Air Crew and Dr. Al Haddrell. 
ASHRAE 

CREDITS
Public Health is Dead is created, hosted, produced, written and edited by Daniella Barreto
Fact checking support from Anika S.
Additional content editing by Lauren M. 
 

MUSIC
Follies.wav by daveincamas -- https://freesound.org/s/44074 -- License: Attribution 4.0
Epidemic Sound | Sound Effect | Cow Moo https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/6ea040bf-546d-463b-9980-8bee0026117d/\
Epidemic Sound | Music | You Set My Soul on Fire (Instrumental Version) Sture Zetterberg 
https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/HTd1XBrnkk/
Epidemic Sound | Sound Effect | Concert Cheering
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/040d94db-b30b-4dc2-aab5-11723b7fbe02/
Epidemic Sound | Sound Effect | Interior, Medium, Cough
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/8f30418c-e238-46be-8b72-a5f91fe7fb7d/
Epidemic Sound | Sound Effect | Male, with Bad Flu or Cold, Chesty
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/329de734-e1a0-4136-b398-58c3c682f627/

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