@cleanairclassrm
#CleanAir #IndoorAirQuality #HealthyLearning #N95 #VaccinePlusPlan #CO2Monitor #DisabilityAccess Allied Health & Building Profession Led Founder @mishwoz.bsky.social Information for UK schools & parents https://tinyurl.com/CleanAirClassroomResource
Our Open Letter on clean air in schools, along with further concerns, has now been shared with all four UK Children’s Commissioners.
Children spend ~8 hours a day in classrooms.
Clean air should not be a luxury dependant on postcode.
Across 3 consecutive autumn terms, installing HEPA air filters helped this Hampshire school achieve:
🔥21% fewer illness absences
🔥4,500 extra pupil-days in school
🔥Clear benefits for
SEND | SEMH | FSM
#EvidenceInAction #SafeAirSchools
www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...
Don't forget
@chrischirp.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social @binitakane.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social to ask the
🇬🇧 Government & @ukhsa.bsky.social
Invest in Schools
And Healthcare
#HealthyBuildings
#CleanAirIndoors
💨
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FLU is in the AIR
🇬🇧 schools
" We haven't done anything different. ...wash hands" 🤔
What lessons need learning from the pandemic?
Give every child
Every teacher
Family
Healthcare Workers
#CleanAirIndoors
#Ventilation
#AirFiltration
Wear a respirator
youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?...
'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'.
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
This is reason I still wear a mask on all flights and probably will do so forever. I also still carry CO2 monitor to check ventilation! My lessons (after not catching it yet AFAIK): always wear a mask during travel, in tight crowded spaces, public restrooms, hotel corridors, and elevators....
Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Don't forget
@chrischirp.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social @binitakane.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social to ask the
🇬🇧 Government & @ukhsa.bsky.social
Invest in Schools
And Healthcare
#HealthyBuildings
#CleanAirIndoors
💨
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. @implausibleblog.bsky.social
@itvnews.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social
👇
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FLU is in the AIR
GIVE EVERY
Child Teacher Families
#CleanAirClassrooms
#AirFiltration #Ventilation
@cvcev.bsky.social
@saferairproject.bsky.social @inclusivenew.bsky.social
@simonkidwell.bsky.social @naht.org.uk @neunion.bsky.social @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social
#SaveNHS
Nursing Notes By Florence Nightingale Excerpt quote " Health of the houses There are 5 essential points in Securing the health of houses 1.Pure air 2.pure water 3.efficient drainage 4.cleanliness 5.light Without these no house can be healthy, and it will be unhealthy just in proportion as they are deficient. #CleanAirClassroom #CleanAirHealthcare #CleanAirAtWork #CleanAir is a #HumanRight
☝️
#Ventilation +
#AirFiltration
@vsmacdonald.bsky.social @naht.org.uk @neunion.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social
Fix broken buildings
Schools, Healthcare
Invest in #HealthyBuildings
Protect the most vulnerable
FLU is in the AIR
🇬🇧 schools
" We haven't done anything different. ...wash hands" 🤔
What lessons need learning from the pandemic?
Give every child
Every teacher
Family
Healthcare Workers
#CleanAirIndoors
#Ventilation
#AirFiltration
Wear a respirator
youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?...
Headteachers: " we haven't done anything different..wash hands " 🤔
FLU is in
THE AIR
What have we learnt
From the pandemic?
@vsmacdonald.bsky.social @naht.org.uk @simonkidwell.bsky.social @neunion.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social
Give Every Child A
#CleanAirClassroom
youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?...
#FluIsAirborne
It's in the AIR
@channel4news.bsky.social
#CleanAirClassrooms
#CleanAirHealthcare
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TEDx Talks: "How persistent pathogens could accelerate the aging process by Amy Proal"
'..gut tissue collected from a person with long COVID almost 2 years after..here's the thing, these chronic pathogens are the closest thing there are to hackers of the human body"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMcV...
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☝️
#HealthyBuildings
Every Baby, Child,
Deserves to breathe
#CleanSharedIndoorAir
To grow and thrive
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![new research on influenza A shows the virus behaves very differently in the bodies of pregnant and non-pregnant mice.
Study co-author Professor John O’Leary from Trinity College, Dublin, said the findings represent a landmark advance in the understanding of viral infections and pregnancy.
‘The discovery of an influenza-induced “vascular storm” is one of the most significant developments in inflammatory infectious diseases over the last 30 years,’ he said. ‘[It also] has significant implications for other viral infections, including COVID-19.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycxja7acqnay665ub64i2pfp/bafkreibzh6tli5apavgssn7df2qctsal7qffcfcwpttz6hxvhkiaft3gla@jpeg)
new research on influenza A shows the virus behaves very differently in the bodies of pregnant and non-pregnant mice. Study co-author Professor John O’Leary from Trinity College, Dublin, said the findings represent a landmark advance in the understanding of viral infections and pregnancy. ‘The discovery of an influenza-induced “vascular storm” is one of the most significant developments in inflammatory infectious diseases over the last 30 years,’ he said. ‘[It also] has significant implications for other viral infections, including COVID-19.’
We found a dramatic difference in these inflamed blood vessels, which can seriously affect how much blood makes it to the placenta and all the organs that help support the growing baby,’ he said. ‘We’ve known that flu infection in pregnancy results in an increased risk of babies being smaller and suffering oxygen starvation. ‘Our research shows the critical role that the vascular system could be playing in this, with inflammation in the blood vessels reducing blood flow and nutrient transfer from mum to baby.’ While the researchers did not directly measure blood flow, the study found an increase in biomarkers for oxygen starvation in the fetuses of the flu-infected mice. Pregnancy is believed to affect influenza severity, as the placenta secretes proteins and releases fetal DNA into the mother’s blood that can cause underlying inflammation; influenza infection may tip that underlying inflammation in the mother’s body into a full-blown systemic inflammatory event.
Pandemic #PublicHealth
Implications
🌐 Governments & @who.int must commit
To
Regulate & Improve
#IndoorAirQuality
Prevent spread of VIRUSES
Work for
#HealthyBuildings
Interesting research
Implications of Flu &+other viral infections to mum & foetus
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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.
"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.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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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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.
