Thread by @Poppendieck

#WHIAQ. Clean Air Benefits Everyone.

Taryn Williams. Ass. Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy. Improving IAQ in schools, homes and workplaces is an issue of equity (YES). Those who vulnerable are more likely to be affected by poor IAQ.
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Kenneth Mendez. Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. 25 Million Americans have Asthma and 4,000 people die per year (1:13 people). 5 Million children. Asthma is leading cause of missed school days. Cost is up to $82 billion (?). Need better IAQ to reduce triggers.
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@linseymarr Need to make it easier to experience good IAQ, by setting standards that schools need to meet. If the road is dangerous we lower the speed limit and have enforcement mechanisms.
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John Auerbach. CDC. We know from a public health perspective we focused on reducing smoking indoors and radon. We don't want to think about IAQ as something that can be fixed easily with just one policy. Enormous unevenness on impacts of regulations.
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John Auerbach. CDC. Don't want to increase ventilation next to a polluting highway. Each building has its own issue.

Carl Howell. Wealth and location should not dictate the quality of air you breath, indoors and out. Discriminating housing practices impact our IAQ.
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Carl Howell. Ten year differences in life expectancy between black and white male residents. We need our housing stock to be healthy and safe places. Many of our child care facilities are in homes, with poor IAQ.
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Taryn Williams. We don't want to lose the moment. We need to leverage this moment to make sustainable action now. We need to prioritize equity in this effort.

Kenneth Mendez. We need to continue to invest in government agencies. We are preaching to the choir here.
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Kenneth Mendez. We need to make sure our surface and air cleaners are actually working.

@linseymarr We need to highlight that the cost to benefits of air cleaning can be up to 10:1 (absenteeism and other benefits).
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John Auerbach. We need better, faster data wrt to COVID19 reporting. We need a strong public health system, needs workforce investment across the country. We need involve people on the community level.
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Carl Howell. We need enforcement and monitoring. We don't enforce many of our current codes. We need investment across all spaces (including NGOs and capital funds for safe spaces). Need to target the WORST spaces for investment (me CO2 monitoring!).
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Kenneth Mendez. Black Americans 3 times more like to die from Asthma. Target these communities for biggest bang for the buck.
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@linseymarr Seattle King County offered IAQ consulting assistance for anyone who asked. Model program?

John Auerbach. COVID19 money will go away unless it is built into the budget. CDC invested $250 million on home visits to improve safety including IAQ.
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Carl Howell. The cost of inaction is not accounted for. If you OWN the property you can meet the standards you want. Absentee owners may not seek to meet IAQ standards.
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John Auerbach. We need to understanding the complexity of what it will take to improve IAQ in these communities.

Carl Howell. Need to look at how a community budgets to see its moral compass and what it values. It will show if we really prioritizing the community.
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Kenneth Mendez. Integrated management. Bring in other agency's.

@linseymarr. We need to prioritize the health benefit of IAQ.
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