Thread by @DrEricDing

⚠️WARNING TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS: A top seller of “bipolar ionization” (avoid!) air purification cleaners among schools is facing a federal class action lawsuit that its devices could produce toxic chemicals in classroom air & do not work to fight #COVID19.🧵
motherjones.com/coronavirus-up…

2) Bipolar ionization (avoid this type) maker “Global Plasma Solutions preys on people desperate to cleanse the air and protect themselves from ailments including the COVID-19 virus,” alleges the complaint filed in US District Court in Delaware on May 7.

3) “Defendant’s ‘profits over people’ scheme won the company acclaim, publicity, and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.”

4) Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) is one of the country’s top manufacturers of purifiers that use a technology called bipolar ionization: small machines, usually installed in air ducts, that zap passing air molecules and give them a positive or negative electrical charge.

5) According to the company, those charged molecules, called ions, spread through the room, destroy pathogens, and eliminate other harmful contaminants. GPS claims its devices can eliminate 99.4% of #SARSCoV2 from surfaces in 30 minutes and 98.3% from the air in 60 minutes.

6) Schools have found the pitch compelling: GPS says over 1,300 K-12 schools have installed its devices, and demand has only increased over the last year. The lawsuit estimates that GPS has sold “tens of thousands of units” at minimum.

7) The company’s claims about COVID are “deceptive,” overstating the purifiers’ ability to fight COVID and “instilling customers with a false sense of security through misleading claims,” according to the lawsuit.

8) Testing that GPS touts as “independent” is actually paid for by the company itself and employs unrealistic experimental conditions, the complaint adds.

9) It cites an investigation published last week by Kaiser Health News, which found that one of the company’s COVID tests amounted to blasting the virus with 27,000 ions per cubic centimeter in a chamber the size of a shoebox… see piece @By_CJewett

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1389351162269274115

10) here is the lawsuit against the maker of the bipolar ionization air cleaner. It’s crazy crazy crazy irresponsible.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1392212641096028163