Thread by @HuffmanLabDU

Excellent new guide on healthy #school buildings. Should be mandatory reading & discussion by all #K12 school boards, districts, school leadership.

Short, easily readable, w/ practical recommendations & support - for COVID & well beyond.

Link: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652… (1/🧵)

https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1386825056815403008

2/ Summarized interventions for airborne infectious disease prevention:
1⃣ Commission buildings and examine existing systems
2⃣ Ventilate with clean outdoor air
3⃣ Improve the building’s air cleaning efficiency through evidence-based air cleaning treatment such as filtration

3/ Interventions, cont'd:
4⃣ If the ability to upgrade ventilation and air cleaning is limited, use portable air cleaners with high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration
5⃣ Consider other evidence-based air cleaning approaches in the context of existing strategies

4/ "Health co-benefits go beyond disease transmission"

Improving indoor air quality of schools is SO much more than just prevention of disease! Opportunity is now for long-term value.

⬇️ Less asthma
⬇️ Less missed school days
⬇️ Fewer respiratory symptoms
⬆️ Higher test scores

5/ Fabulous job on the report by another all-star team:
@CorsIAQ, @ShellyMBoulder, @MarissaVanry, @linseymarr, Leslie Cadet, @NiraPollock, @drdavidmichaels, Emily Jones, @meiralevinson, Yuguo Li, Lidia Morawska, @j_g_allen

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6/ A similar take on needing to make #K12 schools safer wrt COVID and all indoor air quality issues (and for all other schools & workplaces) -- see also the recent Op-Ed that @ChemDelphine, @marinavance, and I wrote.
coloradosun.com/2021/04/23/saf…

7/ Also see this open letter by @marwa_zaatari & @MarcelHarmon1 (supported by 12 other #IAQ experts) focusing especially on the use of electronic air cleaning equipment in buildings (i.e. use evidence-based strategies instead).
medium.com/open-letter-to…

8/ One goal for our Op-Ed on healthy air in schools was to motivate grass-roots advocacy by constituents.

Read @TheLancet #school report & then engage w/ your district to make sure they take it seriously.

Op-Ed 👇: coloradosun.com/2021/04/23/saf…
Lancet Report: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652…