A HEPA filter in a classroom at Bowling Park Primary School in Bradford, UK
University of Leeds
Air filter machines put into a handful of UK schools reduced the number of covid-19-related sick days by more than 20 per cent, the first such randomised trial of the intervention has found.
HEPA filters, devices about the size of a tall kitchen waste bin, were placed in the classrooms of schools in the Bradford area. The results haven’t yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, but one of the researchers revealed the 20 per cent fall …
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