Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife

What's the deal with indoor air quality? From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.

If you haven't listened to this yet, I highly recommend it. All your basic questions about indoor air quality -- what are the pollutants? what tech can keep them out? what policies do we need? -- are answered.

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

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Hong Kong battles mutated flu strain surge as second child dies this season Health authorities say 11-month-old boy has become second flu death of the year, as public urged to get jabs to protect against complications.

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Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️

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In 6 days, the Covid Inquiry will release its final verdict on the political leadership of Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and others during the pandemic.

This report will conclude its investigation into Core UK decision-making and political governance, known as Module 2.

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The role of ecoimmunology in tackling the emerging threats of climate change and the exposome Nature Immunology - Climate change creates a multitude of challenges over the human life-course, influencing our exposomes and shaping immune function — requiring researchers to consider...

so excited to share our article in @nature.com Immunology on the many challenges of climate change has for our immune function, infection susceptibility and disease and the need for new ways to research this. Will do a thread later! 🧪 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

We’re shining a light on the air we share indoors

To mark World Ventil8 Day, we’re working with organisations from around the world to shine a light on the air we share indoors.

#MTIV25 #MTIV #Accessibility #IndoorAirQuality #IAQ #SaferAirProject #WorldVentil8Day

🎥 Session 1 recordings live! 🎥

The first batch of recordings from the Safer shared air: Making the invisible visible conference are now live on our YouTube channel 🔗 bit.ly/ssa-2025-pla...

Dust life cycle: sources, elimination, exposure

Thanks to Erica Hartmann for leading a newly published paper, "Ten questions concerning indoor dust."

What is it?
Where does it come from?
How does it mediate environmental exposures?
How does it affect chemicals indoors?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Folks - check out this new review, led by the amazing @ericamhartmann.bsky.social: Ten questions concerning indoor dust.

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We need an intelligent conversation abt
Education & health
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Help govt understand
The route of the problem
📈 Illness
Child poverty
SEN
Mental Health
#BrokenSchools

Why 'crackdown' on families fines/prosecution 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ? @michaelmarmot.bsky.social
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We need a public health approach to tackling the route cause of rising absence in school
#SEN #IllnessSickness
#MentalWellness
#ChildAndFamilyPoverty

A 'crackdown ' with fines and criminal prosecution does not resolve this situation

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Screenshot Of website https://www.airclub.org/ Section to ' view and sign the global pledge for healthy indoor air '

Screenshot of pledge document

The 🌐 pledge for
#HealthyIndoorAir

Sign the pledge

www.airclub.org

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Wonderful discussions
Lived experiences
#ThreeAgesOfChild
#HealthCREATION
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🌐 Built environment professions can be involved too in this conversation
What role can they play in shaping kids lives?

#HealthySchool
#HealthyHomes
#GreeningCities

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BBC Radio 4 - Three Ages of Child A journey through the landscape that shapes the health of our children.

This one’s personal ❤️

After 18 months of hard work, #ThreeAgesofChild is finally out on BBC Radio 4! It’s a story of inequity, resilience, and why we must do better by our children.

Listen, share, shout about it. Let’s make it impossible to ignore!
🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On today’s @WorldVentil8Day, thanks to everyone contributing to indoorco2map.com. from grassroots initiatives to institutions and individuals, together we’re making real progress toward better indoor air quality, with many promising developments this year.

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

“The fight in the big pandemic public health story has moved from proving COVID is airborne to building a public health system that acts like it.”

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#HappyVentil8Day

City Hall research published today reveals levels of the key pollutant PM2.5 were up to 68% lower in classrooms with filters compared to classrooms without #SafeAirSchools

London leads the way with air filters installed in schools across the capital! 🌍✨
@london.gov.uk

Air quality readings from inside a Hampshire UK school, the House of Commons and a dead canary

Blimey that’s toxic!

By contrast the House of Commons is doing very well, thank you very much!

Can we have clean air for all kids please?

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Action schools can take to improve indoor air I Safe Air Schools

We share guidance including the new NEU ventilation guidance & encourage schools to take immediate, medium & long-term steps. By sharing good practice & grassroots experience we hope to help school communities feel confident discussing the air children breathe

www.safeairschools.org/improving-cl...

2,796,380 teaching days are lost to sickness absence in England

£222 is spent per pupil on supply teacher costs

That’s 3.91% of all teaching costs per student

Yet clean air costs less than the price of a pizza per child, per year

Details available at #SafeAirSchools .org
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