For Your Healthy Air
How to find out if your indoor air could be putting you at risk
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
-- Søren Kierkegaard
Selected Online Data Reports:
Air Quality, COVID-19, & Health
Effectiveness of eco-feedback in improving the indoor air quality in residential buildings: Mitigation of the exposure to airborne particles (Dec 2022)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360132322009362
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Systematic way to understand and classify the shared-room
airborne transmission risk of indoor spaces (2022)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.13025
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Indoor Air in Homes and Coronavirus (COVID-19) Last updated June 27, 2022
https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/indoor-air-homes-and-coronavirus-covid-19
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The Homemade Air Purifier That’s Been Saving Lives During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Smithsonian Magazine, March 7, 2022)
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Consumer IAQ Monitors. Critical review by Dr. Dustin Poppendieck, indoor air quality Environmental Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; no date)
http://poppendieck.com/IAQ/Consumer%20IAQ%20Monitors.html
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Avoiding coronavirus infection in indoor spaces:
don’t breathe other people’s air (2021)
https://elpais.com/especiales/coronavirus-covid-19/how-to-avoid-the-infection-in-indoor-spaces/
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​Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses (2021)
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abd9149
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Ventilation in Buildings from CDC (as of June 2, 2021). Buried in Question 9:
"One potential target benchmark for good ventilation is CO2 readings below 800 parts per million (ppm).”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilation.html
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How to quantify the ventilation rate of an indoor space using an affordable CO2 monitor (2020)
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Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition (2020)
https://neurosciencenews.com/co2-emission-cognition-16245/
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​It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (2020)
​https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/71/9/2311/5867798?login=false
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Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers (2016)
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037
Risk of indoor airborne infection transmission estimated from carbon dioxide concentration (2003)