Our new report, School Ventilation: A Vital Tool to Reduce COVID-19 Spread, recommends 6 priorities for how school administrators and decisionmakers could use flexible funds available under the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan to improve healthy air in schools (1/5)
The report recommends below priorities (2/5):

A: Bring in as much outdoor air as the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system will safely allow and upgrade filtration.

B: Purchase HEPA air filtration units to be placed in classrooms and common occupied spaces.
Priorities continued (3/5):

C: Use only proven technologies: appropriate ventilation, HEPA filtration, or ultraviolet germicidal irradiation.

D: Stop enhanced cleaning, disinfecting, “deep clean” days, and any other expensive and disruptive cleaning.
Priorities concluded (4/5):

E: Install mechanical ventilation systems where none exist and upgrade those that do not meet current standards.

F: Convene a federal task force dedicated to school air quality.
Read more about these 6 priorities: centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publi…. (5/5)

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