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DIY filtration boxes from ASU help prevent spread of Covid in Phoenix cooling centers
Oakley Seiter Cronkite News//September 25, 2023//[read_meter]
Student volunteers at the end of a “box-a-thon” build day in 2022 outside Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change on the Tempe campus. The spread of Covid can make the small, enclosed spaces of cooling rooms dangerous for the vulnerable homeless community. The Arizona Infectious Disease Epi (AIDE) Lab at Arizona State University offered a solution: Corsi-Rosenthal (CR) boxes. These boxes promote clean indoor air for mitigation of disease as a low-cost and effective alternative to commercial High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters. (Photo by Steve Filmer/ASU News)
DIY filtration boxes from ASU help prevent spread of Covid in Phoenix cooling centers
Oakley Seiter Cronkite News//September 25, 2023//[read_meter]
Being homeless in the hottest large city in the United States can be fatal. According to Maricopa County’s 2022 Heat Deaths Report, more than half of all heat-related deaths in...
