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"Gesunde Innenraumluft in Schulen: Jeder Atemzug prägt das Lernen", so lautet der Titel des Side Events, das gestern in New York am Rande der UN-Generalversammlung stattgefunden hat.
Hier der Link zur 90-minütige Aufzeichnung der Konferenz:
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Healthy Indoor Air in Schools: Every Breath Shapes Learning
Co-sponsored by the Governments of Montenegro, France, and Eswatini this event will highlight one of the most overlooked levers in children's health and learning: the quality of the air they breathe i...
![Another team, led by the Florida company Poppy, is designing [highlighted]a system that would work in schools [end highlight]. The signals from the team's air samplers would switch on air filters in classrooms. They would [ highlighted] run until the air in the classrooms was safe again. [end highlight]
Dr. Marr's group has focused on [highlighted] day care centers. [end highlight] They are creating software that can make models of the rooms in a center, predicting how air flows between them and the threat each room would pose if someone entered the building with an infection. The [highlighted] system could pump fresh air from the outside or switch on air purifiers to reduce the threat. [end highlight]
All the teams are working toward putting their systems to the test in the real world.
SafeTraces has plans to test a prototype in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2028. Dr. Marr's group is preparing to test its system in day care centers in California, Michigan and North Carolina.
The technology is intended to reduce respiratory illnesses by at least 25 percent in each setting. But the systems also need to be
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