Our Open Letter on clean air in schools, along with further concerns, has now been shared with all four UK Children’s Commissioners. Children spend ~8 hours a day in classrooms. Clean air should not be a luxury dependant on postcode.
Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife
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#CleanAir #IndoorAirQuality #HealthyLearning #N95 #VaccinePlusPlan #CO2Monitor #DisabilityAccess Allied Health & Building Profession Led Founder @mishwoz.bsky.social Information for UK schools & parents https://tinyurl.com/CleanAirClassroomResource
Across 3 consecutive autumn terms, installing HEPA air filters helped this Hampshire school achieve: 🔥21% fewer illness absences 🔥4,500 extra pupil-days in school 🔥Clear benefits for SEND | SEMH | FSM #EvidenceInAction #SafeAirSchools www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...
The 5p Solution: How clean air is transforming attendance and learning in one Hampshire school
Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught.
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Don't forget @chrischirp.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social @binitakane.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social to ask the 🇬🇧 Government & @ukhsa.bsky.social Invest in Schools And Healthcare #HealthyBuildings #CleanAirIndoors 💨 bsky.app/profile/clea...
Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife@cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 8mo agoFLU is in the AIR 🇬🇧 schools " We haven't done anything different. ...wash hands" 🤔 What lessons need learning from the pandemic? Give every child Every teacher Family Healthcare Workers #CleanAirIndoors #Ventilation #AirFiltration Wear a respirator youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?...
FLU is in the AIR 🇬🇧 schools " We haven't done anything different. ...wash hands" 🤔 What lessons need learning from the pandemic? Give every child Every teacher Family Healthcare Workers #CleanAirIndoors #Ventilation #AirFiltration Wear a respirator youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?...
Indoor air systems crucial to curbing spread of viruses, aerosol researchers say | 60 Minutes
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Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife@cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 8mo ago#FluIsAirborne It's in the AIR @channel4news.bsky.social #CleanAirClassrooms #CleanAirHealthcare youtu.be/G__ch0-PdV0?...
'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'. www.propublica.org/article/covi...
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
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This is reason I still wear a mask on all flights and probably will do so forever. I also still carry CO2 monitor to check ventilation! My lessons (after not catching it yet AFAIK): always wear a mask during travel, in tight crowded spaces, public restrooms, hotel corridors, and elevators....
Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
A Review discusses the scientific basis of and factors controlling airborne transmission of respiratory viruses including coronavirus.
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FLU is in the AIR GIVE EVERY Child Teacher Families #CleanAirClassrooms #AirFiltration #Ventilation @cvcev.bsky.social @saferairproject.bsky.social @inclusivenew.bsky.social @simonkidwell.bsky.social @naht.org.uk @neunion.bsky.social @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social #SaveNHS
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8mo agoLabour's entirely avoidable flu public health disaster Kate Garraway, "Are you considering masks in schools because children aged 5-14 aren't generally eligible for flu vaccines?" Georgia Gould, "Flu happens every winter.. There are sensible precautions in place.. We trust our local schools"
FLU is in the AIR 🇬🇧 schools " We haven't done anything different. ...wash hands" 🤔 What lessons need learning from the pandemic? Give every child Every teacher Family Healthcare Workers #CleanAirIndoors #Ventilation #AirFiltration Wear a respirator youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?...
Indoor air systems crucial to curbing spread of viruses, aerosol researchers say | 60 Minutes
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Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife@cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 8mo ago#FluIsAirborne It's in the AIR @channel4news.bsky.social #CleanAirClassrooms #CleanAirHealthcare youtu.be/G__ch0-PdV0?...
TEDx Talks: "How persistent pathogens could accelerate the aging process by Amy Proal" '..gut tissue collected from a person with long COVID almost 2 years after..here's the thing, these chronic pathogens are the closest thing there are to hackers of the human body" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMcV...
How persistent pathogens could accelerate the aging process | Amy Proal | TEDxBoston
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If you haven't listened to this yet, I highly recommend it. All your basic questions about indoor air quality -- what are the pollutants? what tech can keep them out? what policies do we need? -- are answered.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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In 6 days, the Covid Inquiry will release its final verdict on the political leadership of Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and others during the pandemic. This report will conclude its investigation into Core UK decision-making and political governance, known as Module 2. 🧵 1/4
so excited to share our article in @nature.com Immunology on the many challenges of climate change has for our immune function, infection susceptibility and disease and the need for new ways to research this. Will do a thread later! 🧪 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social
The role of ecoimmunology in tackling the emerging threats of climate change and the exposome
Nature Immunology - Climate change creates a multitude of challenges over the human life-course, influencing our exposomes and shaping immune function — requiring researchers to consider...
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To mark World Ventil8 Day, we’re working with organisations from around the world to shine a light on the air we share indoors. #MTIV25 #MTIV #Accessibility #IndoorAirQuality #IAQ #SaferAirProject #WorldVentil8Day
🎥 Session 1 recordings live! 🎥 The first batch of recordings from the Safer shared air: Making the invisible visible conference are now live on our YouTube channel 🔗 bit.ly/ssa-2025-pla...
Thanks to Erica Hartmann for leading a newly published paper, "Ten questions concerning indoor dust." What is it? Where does it come from? How does it mediate environmental exposures? How does it affect chemicals indoors? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Folks - check out this new review, led by the amazing @ericamhartmann.bsky.social: Ten questions concerning indoor dust.
Linsey Marr@linseymarr.bsky.social · 9mo agoThanks to Erica Hartmann for leading a newly published paper, "Ten questions concerning indoor dust." What is it? Where does it come from? How does it mediate environmental exposures? How does it affect chemicals indoors? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We need an intelligent conversation abt Education & health @schoolsweek.bsky.social Help govt understand The route of the problem 📈 Illness Child poverty SEN Mental Health #BrokenSchools Why 'crackdown' on families fines/prosecution 🏴 ? @michaelmarmot.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/drgu...
Schools Week@schoolsweek.bsky.social · 9mo ago🚨 Government will use AI to set minimum attendance targets for schools to meet this year in the latest bid to crackdown on absence Expectations will be used to offer support through RISE teams, rather than as another accountability measure schoolsweek.co.uk/ai-to-set-mi...
Wonderful discussions Lived experiences #ThreeAgesOfChild #HealthCREATION @drguddisingh.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social 🌐 Built environment professions can be involved too in this conversation What role can they play in shaping kids lives? #HealthySchool #HealthyHomes #GreeningCities
Dr Guddi Singh@drguddisingh.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis one’s personal ❤️ After 18 months of hard work, #ThreeAgesofChild is finally out on BBC Radio 4! It’s a story of inequity, resilience, and why we must do better by our children. Listen, share, shout about it. Let’s make it impossible to ignore! 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This one’s personal ❤️ After 18 months of hard work, #ThreeAgesofChild is finally out on BBC Radio 4! It’s a story of inequity, resilience, and why we must do better by our children. Listen, share, shout about it. Let’s make it impossible to ignore! 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Three Ages of Child
A journey through the landscape that shapes the health of our children.
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On today’s @WorldVentil8Day, thanks to everyone contributing to indoorco2map.com. from grassroots initiatives to institutions and individuals, together we’re making real progress toward better indoor air quality, with many promising developments this year.
Indoor-CO₂ Atlas
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“The fight in the big pandemic public health story has moved from proving COVID is airborne to building a public health system that acts like it.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
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IGÖ@igoe.at · 9mo ago##worldventil8day Only what gets messured, gets managed. Nur dort, wo CO2-Messung die Lüftung steuert, klappt der Luftaustausch auch verlässlich. Postet doch gerne hier eure Messwerte aus Büros, Geschäften und öffentlichem Verkehr!
