Thread by @AmandaKvalsvig

Each day, we breathe more than 7,000 litres of air. Unsurprisingly, the quality of this air really matters.
Finally, thanks to @bronking, @ayyemm and so many others, we saw clean indoor air advocacy on the world stage at the UN last week.
Momentum is building.
So what's next?

In a new @ConversationEDU article (linked below) we propose three next steps.
1. Govts need to be strategic. #IAQ can't be fixed everywhere at once. If we reduce airborne transmission where it matters, just enough to get the reproduction number R below 1, outbreaks can't spread.

For maxium health impact, initial focus needs to be on public settings where people gather every day: work, education, healthcare.
2. There must be standards & accountability. Gentle guidelines aren't good enough for drinking water safety: the same is true for the air we breathe.

3. We need to lead from the community too, and raise up clean air champions like @CleanAir4KidsUK .
Each action, no matter how small, becomes a building block of our everyday public health infrastructure, our pandemic preparedness & our climate response.
For more ideas, see 👇

The published article:
via @ConversationEDUtheconversation.com/why-investment…