You can block it. The unit won't heat or cool that room anymore though. The return air does effect supply air temp. And heat pump efficiency. With a 60 degree return air temp, the heat pump is more efficient then with a 70 degree return air temp.
We are simply getting contaminated causing otherwise healthy folks to lose the function of their kidneys and for a senior citizen who is already suffering sarcopenia this can be a death sentence because of the complexities associated with Renal Failure.
Sarcopenia is a component of the frailty syndrome. It is often a component of cachexia. It can also exist independently of cachexia; whereas cachexia includes malaise and is secondary to an underlying pathosis (such as cancer), sarcopenia may occur in healthy people and does not necessarily include malaise.uring sarcopenia, there is a decrease in type 2 fiber circumference (Type II), with little to no decrease in type I fiber circumference (Type I), and deinervated type 2 fibers are often converted to type 1 fibers by reinnervation by slow type 1 fiber motor nerves.