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August 18, 2021

We should install air purifiers with HEPA filters in every classroom. It could help with COVID, bushfire smoke and asthma

Donna Green, UNSW Sydney and Ben Harris-Roxas, UNSW Sydney

A$50 million could provide all NSW school classrooms with air purifiers with HEPA filters. This pales compared to the roughly $220 million-a-day cost of Sydney’s lockdown.

Classroom experiments show how the coronavirus can spread and who’s at greatest risk. Tom Werner via Getty Images

October 5, 2020

When COVID-19 superspreaders are talking, where you sit in the room matters

Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University

Experiments in college classrooms show how tiny respiratory droplets known as aerosols can spread, even with good ventilation. The risk isn’t the same in every seat.

Social interaction can be risky during a pandemic, but it’s also important for young people’s development and mental health. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

September 16, 2020

Teens want COVID-19 advice that gives them safe ways to socialize – not just rules for what they can’t do

Tammy Chang, University of Michigan and Matthew Dunn, University of Michigan

In a series of surveys, young people across the US described their thinking and behavior amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The view through an electron microscope shows the spikes that create the ‘corona’ effect on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases

September 9, 2020

MIS-C is a rare but dangerous illness striking children weeks after they get COVID-19 – here’s what we know about it

Ritu Banerjee, Vanderbilt University

Even kids who were asymptomatic when they had COVID-19 have developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a new review of hundreds of cases shows.

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