As the pandemic drags on, cleaning up indoor air has become a passion project not just for aerosol scientists and epidemiologists, but for a grab bag of concerned citizens.
found that ventilation systems could reduce the risk of coronavirus infection in schools by more than 80% if the air was changed six times an hour.
Federal officials pointed out that the Environmental Protection Agency has no regulatory power over the quality of indoor air. “Right now, two tools we have are guidance and funding,” said Georgia Lagoudas, a senior advisor for biotechnology and bioeconomy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “We’re doing what we can to incentivize people.”
The tricky part of setting any such standard, however, is that “we don’t necessarily have a common understanding of what acceptable risk is,” Bahnfleth said. Inspired by gamers who have tricked out their computers with LED lights, LeVine began experimenting with cheap, illuminated fans made for computers and sharing his colorful creations online.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health said it has connected schools with state grants to improve their ventilation systems and provides diagrams on the best places to put fans in school gyms. If outbreaks arise at schools or workplaces, its teams help assess ventilation systems and may perform a “smoke test” to gauge airflow, according to the public health department.
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