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School officials desperate to calm worried parents bought these devices and others with a flood of federal funds, installing them in more than 2,000 schools across 44 states. They use a same technology deemed unproven.

As schools spend millions on air purifiers, experts warn of overblown claims and harm to children Last summer, Global Plasma Solutions wanted to test whether the companys air-purifying devices could kill covid-19 virus particles but could find only a lab using a chamber the size of a shoebox for its trials. In the company-funded study, the virus was blasted with 27,000 ions per cubic centimeter. In September, the companys founder incidentally mentioned that the devices being offered for sale ac...

Schools spending millions on air purifiers often sold using overblown claims CNN 5/11/2021 By Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News © George Frey/Getty Images PROVO, UT - FEBRUARY 10: A teacher prepares her classroom before students arrive for school at Freedom Preparatory Academy on February 10, 2021 in Provo, Utah. Freedom Academy has done in person instruction since the middle of August of 2020 with only four days of school canceled due to COVID-19 outbre...

April 26, 2021 UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News. An annual study of inclusivity done by UCLA showed efforts to improve diversity in film and television are on the upswing. Darnell Hunt, the co-author of that research, is encouraged by what he’s seeing and says it’s good for morale and for business. (UCLA’s Ana-Christina Ramon was also quoted in the co...

Support for LAist comes from According to Michael Jerrett, a UCLA public health professor, Pacoima faces multiple challenges when it comes to air quality. For starters, the geography of the region, a valley, causes air-toxic chemicals, like nitrogen dioxide and ozone to settle near ground level. It’s like liquid in a bowl. That’s where small particles get into people’s lungs, where they can cause inflammation. It also doesn’t help that Pacoima is a big producer of those chemicals. White...

April 20, 2021 UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News. The UCLA CarbonBuilt team, led by Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, won the prize in the competition’s track for technologies related to coal-fired power generation. By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team’s inventio...

By City News Service Apr 14, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A research project led by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found that Los Angeles County neighborhoods with poor air quality had the highest coronavirus death rates, it was announced today. “Our findings imply a potentially large association between exposure to air pollution and population-level rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths, said Dr. Michael Jerrett, a Fielding School professor of environmental health sciences and the proje...

2021-04-15 08:36:03 GMT2021-04-15 16:36:03(Beijing Time) Xinhua English LOS ANGELES, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A research project led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with poor air quality had the highest death rates from the coronavirus. The paper, titled "Spatial Analysis of COVID-19 and Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Los Angeles" from the Fielding School of Public Health, was scheduled to be published in the August edition...

1 2021-04-15 16:34:36Xinhua Editor : Cheng Zizhuo ECNS App Download Motorists line up to receive inoculation at a COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, the United States, Jan. 15, 2021. (Photo/Xinhua) A research project led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with poor air quality had the highest death rates from the corona...

By City News Service Apr 14, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A research project led by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found that Los Angeles County neighborhoods with poor air quality had the highest coronavirus death rates, it was announced today. “Our findings imply a potentially large association between exposure to air pollution and population-level rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths, said Dr. Michael Jerrett, a Fielding School professor of environmental health sciences and the proje...