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Kids Are Headed Back to School. Are They Breathing Clean Air? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Clean indoor air protects against diseases such as COVID and flu, but we’re not doing enough to ensure it

We—and especially our children—should be able to walk into a store or a gym or a school and assume the air is clean to breathe. Like water from the faucet, regulations should ensure our air is safe.

“Air is tricky. You can choose to not partake of the water or the snacks on the table, but you can’t just abstain from breathing,”

The COVID-causing virus SARS-CoV-2 is far from the only airborne risk in schools. There are also other respiratory viruses, smoke from wildfires, mold spores, off-gassing from plastics and other compounds, air pollution from traffic and industry, and allergens that worsen asthma and add to sick days. Yet federal air standards are stuck in the 1970s, when they were mostly aimed at protecting people from secondhand tobacco smoke

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