As the Covid-19 pandemic overwhelms hospitals and shuts down American cities, it has also placed new demands on janitors and specialized cleaners. In New York City, it's Reuven Noyman's job to clean up after the coronavirus. He's fought it in apartments, hotel, hospitals, gyms, and office buildings. And unfortunately, his work is just beginning.
Read more about Noyman here.
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My name is Reuven Noyman. My company's name
is NYC Steam Cleaning.
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We're here talking about the problem that we have with
COVID-19. So right now I think we
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haven't had one phone call that's our
regular general cleaning that we do on a
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regular basis. It would just went down to
just COVID-19. I mean there's really
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nothing else. We just did a building that
the doorman had it was tested positive
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for corona[virus] so we went in we sanitized
everything from the front all the way to
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the elevators the doors the hallways
everything. People are nervous and people
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are getting it the calls now are turning
into I have a case I had a case we need
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to get this clean. It was obvious that it
was gonna spread you know. Obviously
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nobody really knew how much it was going
to spread except really amazing doctors
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that are on top of it and we should
listen to them. It's a problem that I
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think we'll solve because we know what
you know COVID-19 is and it's just a
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new strand of disease that we're already
familiar with. It's part of the SARS
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family. We know what it is we know how it
affects our body. We know what to do with it.
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It's just a matter of there's time
and really doing everything we need to
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do to protect us.
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I send my guys in fully protected I'm
not sending them without proper
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equipment. They're going in there fully
covered they have all the equipment that
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they need to really be safe.
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We have a
variety of machines that we use.
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Anywhere from ulv foggers ...
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to electrostatic machines.
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To vapor steam machines, which are a
natural product with just water.
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We are a disinfecting company. This is what we
do for a living, but it's not a natural
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business model. I'd rather go back to the
old days. Obviously we're busy, but I
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rather have it steady and safe then have
this going on this way. Listen, now we're
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will work as much as we can as hard as
we can. My guys are working 24 hours a day.
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We'll cover as much square footage as we
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could. You know where we live to get
this clean as fast as possible.
