This is baloney? Air quality experts like Richard Corsi (UC Davis, now, poor guy, the dean of the college of engineering) have been advocating for increasing both external ACH (air changes/hour) and filtration ACH since nearly the beginning of the pandemic.

> Early in the pandemic, his efforts focused on lowering inhalation dose of virus-laden aerosol particles indoors. He led an effort to develop an educational tool for assessing parallel interventions for lowering inhalation dose for aerosols and risk of infection in buildings. His concept of a low-cost and effective do-it-yourself air cleaner to combat virus-laden aerosol particles and wildfire smoke has become known worldwide as the Corsi-Rosenthal Box. He recently chaired a National Academies committee responsible for the 2024 report, “Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Practical Mitigation Solutions.”

An awful lot of people who pay attention to engineering solutions for airborne risk reduction - the people who know what ASHRAE is - were saying exactly the same thing throughout nearly the entirety of the pandemic. Because of their advocacy and data, as one example, we got HEPA filters installed in our kids' elementary and preschools as part of the strategy to resume in-person education.

What to supplement your understanding of COVID, schools, and myths vs facts? This was NPR The Pulse recently:

Back to School in a Rapidly Changing World

https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_12369_085cdf46-2a33-4f24-...

Let just say, if you’re looking for baloney, this podcast (and the author / book it discusses) delivers. In short, we were gravely (?) misled.