Nicola Palin

In Jan there was a conference: Breathing achievement into every classroom This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings and the health, wellbeing, and educational outcomes of students. UKHSA presented & IAQ experts. 1/🧵

Great IAQ info (from a conference) shared by @peteuk7.bsky.social on Twitter:

"In Jan there was a conference:
Breathing achievement into every classroom
This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings..."

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A reminder for these times.

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance

youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE

Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"

It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.

#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem

"In short, portable air filters are an important tool to help reduce the risk of transmission of airborne infectious diseases. This is settled science, and has been for decades."
Their deployment in health care and community settings would help stop the spread of #flu, #Covid & other viruses.

What I said Jan 2022...

So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?

🦠💉🧪

“The success of childhood vaccination has a perverse effect of making the benefits of these vaccines invisible.”

It’s a classic conundrum of preventative measures against disease:* success is when you see nothing when you otherwise would

Nice article from @sarahzhang.bsky.social

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks

Tick... Tick... Tick...

ps: Clean the air FFS.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

MHRA approves adapted Nuvaxovid JN.1 COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children aged 12 plus The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved an adapted version of the Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine that targets the Omicron JN.1 COVID-19 subvariant.

At long last, MHRA has approved Novavax's Nuvaxovid JN.1 in the UK for those aged 12 years and over! How long will it take to become available? #Novavax #JN1
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits $1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
www.vox.com/2020/1/8/210...

H/t @leanhealth.bsky.social on Twitter

Looking for something more positive today? It’s only TWO sleeps until world ventilation day. And your last chance to sign up to hear our fantastic speakers talk about their work to understand and improve ventilation and IAQ 🧪

The @Harvard Healthy Buildings Team creates tools and resources to empower people to apply the latest research on healthy building solutions to their everyday lives. Their tools are free and open to the public.

forhealth.org/tools/

If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.

The question is not:

“Is cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”

it’s

“What does it take to make cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”

Some solutions will deliver high efficacy at low cost, some will deliver low efficacy at a high cost.

The wisdom is knowing the difference.

filters.cleanairstars.com

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

This may be the most important piece of journalism in the entire pandemic. Brilliant detective work by scientists; compellingly told.
www.wired.com/story/the-te...

This does not mention that illness is the leading cause of absences,and covid cases are driving this level of illness. Clean air would go a long way to fixing a lot of the absences and bring children living in CV households back into the school system. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

An opinion I feel should be universal at this point: All indoor public spaces (but especially schools, workplaces, and medical facilities) should be subject to air quality regulations and continuous monitoring and CO2 and particulate concentration numbers should be accessibly displayed.

It definitely does feel promising here...

#3 comes with a caveat - very few children or working age adults are eligible.
Astonishingly, some hospitals are instructing staff NOT to test even with symptoms & still go to work.
Indoor air quality isn't even on the radar (apart from Government buildings).
Autumn & winter are going to be grim.