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Los Angeles Responds To Wildfire Crisis With Community Air Filters

The Pinnacle Gazette

Liesl McConchie, a board member of the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation, collaborated with epidemiologist Megan Jehn to design a rapid response initiative focused on creating and distributing DIY Corsi-Rosenthal air filters. Within just two weeks, they managed to assemble 1,150 air filters. This monumental effort was fueled by $30,000 worth of supplies and nearly 1,000 MERV13 furnace […]

Schools benefit from air purifiers

Listen to Matt Clark, Programme Manager for Air Quality at Hertfordshire County Council, explain how pupils in 31 schools in Hertfordshire will benefit from the installation of air purifiers and air quality monitors and how this will help raise awareness of the issues around air pollution and our understanding of air quality in schools.

Ventilation Can Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Viruses in Indoor Spaces

Safe even under extreme conditions, says global independent safety science company

Chemical Insights - An Institute of Underwriters Laboratories Inc

The DIY box fan air cleaner operates within acceptable thresholds for market safety standard for electric fans, even under extreme conditions.

Tutorial: How to make your own air cleaner at home to protect against fall viruses

As COVID cases surge and flu season approaches, Louie Gold demonstrates how to create a DIY air cleaner.

University of Maryland PHABlab

University of Maryland

Dr. Milton’s PHABlab set up a booth where students, alumni, and community members built their own Corsi-Rosenthal boxes at UMD’s Maryland Day

Parents call for better air quality in schools to protect against viruses, fire smoke

Parents call for better air quality in schools

Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open.

“We would not accept drinking water that is full of pathogens and looks dirty, but we’ve been living with air that is full of pathogens and dirty.”

Philly DSA is helping parents build DIY classroom air filters amid school asbestos closures

Safe Air for Philly Schools

Called Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, the makeshift purifiers can also help with mold and other toxins.

Interview with air quality expert Joey Fox

CBC/Radio-Canada

Air quality expert grades the recent results from testing of New Brunswick's schools

Long Covid: Children affected take fight to Downing Street

"We're hoping the prime minister is going to recognise long Covid in children enough so that he invests in indoor air quality being improved in schools to prevent other children from getting the same condition our children are living with."

In southern Arizona, an entire K-8 school tackles dust, COVID-19 with DIY air purifiers

Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative

ASU students create DIY air filter

For educators, dealing with COVID has required a multi-pronged approach. That includes a DIY air filter. But now, an innovative group of ASU students has gotten creative to protect students in classrooms. Reporter Molly McBride showed us how those filters are made.

Dr Corsi's Bookmark Page of COVID in the media

Fresh Air with Ismaila Alfa

CBC Radio Canada

Since January, 15 year old Shiven Taneja has made over 120 D-I-Y air filters to keep particles including COVID-19 droplets out of the air. He and his mom Kavita were recently invited to the 3M factory in Minnesota for a surprise visit.

Classroom Filters vs. COVID

ASU volunteers builds air filter boxes, which are donated to K–12 schools to help fight COVID-19.

We Need to Improve Indoor Air Quality: Here’s How and Why

Scientific American

Upgrading buildings’ ventilation, filtration and other factors would not only decrease COVID transmission but also improve health and cognitive performance in general.

An ASU epidemiologist and her kids are building DIY air filters to help schools fight COVID-19

KJZZ/Rio Salado College

Lots of parents, teachers and students have found themselves recently with a timely project: making homemade air filters for classrooms and school spaces to help protect from the spread of COVID-19.

Dr Kimberly Prather and Marina Creed presented CRBox "Air Force One" to the White House OSTP

University of Connecticut

A DIY air filtration device assembled by fifth graders in Hartford makes its way to Washington, thanks to a cross-campus effort

UConn Health Hosts “Box-A-Thon” Event For Clean Air

NBC Connecticut

Students from the School of Nursing and Medicine assembled 100 CRBoxes

The Homemade Air Purifier That’s Been Saving Lives During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Smithsonian Magazine

Made from everyday items found in hardware stores, the Corsi-Rosenthal box is a testament to the power of grassroots innovation.

Does Your Kid's Classroom Need An Air Purifier? Here's How You Can Make One Yourself

A DIY air purifier that costs under $100 to make is taking America’s classrooms by storm

Though Corsi calls it “embarrassingly simple,” the Corsi-Rosenthal box delivers significant reduction in particulate spread in indoor settings.

After three years of covering covid, I built my own air filter

The Washington Post

Covid is not going away for the foreseeable future. Vaccination, rapid tests and appropriate masking are important ways to protect against getting sick and spreading the virus. So is better indoor air quality.

White House diverges from CDC, focuses on aerosol COVID spread

"It parallels clean water and outdoor air quality. We expect clean water, and we demand pollution be eliminated to make outdoor air clean. Now people will demand clean indoor air quality."

3M scientists: This Corsi-Rosenthal box movement is legit

What can you build with duct tape, air filters, and a box fan? This might sound like the set up for a dad joke, but according to new insights from 3M, the answer is less of a punchline and more a breath of fresh air.

A type of simple, DIY air filter can be an effective way to filter out indoor air pollutants

Brown University and Silent Spring Institute

A study from researchers at Brown University and Silent Spring Institute found that inexpensive, easy-to-assemble Corsi-Rosenthal boxes can help reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants.

School of Public Health Builds and Installs Corsi-Rosenthal Air Cleaners

Brown University School of Public Health

Brown University School of Public Health has launched a new health project designed to help combat and mitigate COVID-19: Corsi-Rosenthal Cubes.

Let’s Clear The Air On COVID

Dr. Alondra Nelson

The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person to another is through tiny airborne particles of the virus hanging in indoor air for minutes or hours after an infected person has been there. While there are various strategies for avoiding breathing that air – from remote work to masking – we can and […]

Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes as school-based learning activities

Education Forum

Making health and safety curriculum-friendly

UMD students, faculty build low-cost air filtration devices

The Diamondback

University of Maryland faculty and students are building and distributing cost-effective air filtration Corsi-Rosenthal boxes.

Physicist, Non-Profits Build and Test Air Purifiers That Remove COVID Particles

University of Arkansas

"There shouldn’t be anything controversial about clean air. These devices (CR Box Filters) facilitate that. They provide an additional layer of protection that could be widely deployed to make our K-12 and university indoor spaces healthier.”

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits

“Math scores went up by 0.20 standard deviations and English scores by 0.18 standard deviations” in classrooms fitted with portable air filters compared to those without.

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