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Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
The results of the study at two Helsinki daycare centres are still preliminary but promising, a researcher says.
The air purifiers were changed at two daycare centres serving as a control in the experiment, in order to rule out the effect that possible epidemic fluctuations could have on the results. Image: Mårten Lampén / YleMeanwhile, kids between the ages of 1-3 come down with flu-like symptoms between five to eight times a year — and children also often suffer stomach bugs, on top of that. Prompted by the Covid-19 crisis, the E3 Pandemic Response project is a private and public effort that aims to "harness modern science and technology to create effective countermeasures to prevent the spreading of novel infectious diseases".
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