The coronavirus pandemic increased consumer awareness of indoor air quality to its highest level. Average people became much more concerned about ventilation and filtration than ever before. That’s been a boon for the HVAC industry. The question now is, will this elevated interest in IAQ continue after the pandemic ends?
People who worked in this field for years expect it will. Consumers started paying more attention to what they were breathing in before the pandemic started. The rise in asthma and allergy diagnoses drove some of this.