A partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment placed air purifiers in 70% of Utah schools and more than 50% of pre-K centers, writes Jake Jensen, UPHE's program coordinator for K-12 schools.
Second grade teachers Cami Beacham, left, and Amy Bartlett talk during the first week of classes at Desert Sky Elementary, Eagle Mountain’s new elementary school on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.A recent Tribune article reprinted from the, “Why Haven’t We Made It Safer to Breathe in Classrooms?” critiqued the results of a federally funded program intended to improve school classroom air quality and make schools safer by reducing the transmission of COVID and other respiratory diseases.
Four years ago, the extensive research on air pollution’s harm to brain development and brain function prompted UPHE to launch a public campaign to persuade Utah’s legislature to place air purifiers in the state’s classrooms. Soon after, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and the ability of air purifiers to capture viruses and reduce disease transmission added even more urgency to the campaign.
We instructed teachers not to use the ionizing feature criticized in the article unless the particulate pollution was extremely high. Schools were allowed to order up to six of these HEPA filters for each unit, decreasing some of the future maintenance costs.
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