{"id":1542,"date":"2022-10-05T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:42:59","slug":"this-diy-air-purifier-costs-far-less-than-a-hepa-purifier-and-studies-say-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/this-diy-air-purifier-costs-far-less-than-a-hepa-purifier-and-studies-say-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"This DIY air purifier costs far less than a HEPA purifier, and studies say it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, teachers and parents have been sharing photos on social media of do-it-yourself air purifiers that they\u2019ve made for classrooms to help protect kids from COVID-19 transmission.<\/p>\n<p>But do these low-cost purifiers actually work?<\/p>\n<p>According to researchers, they do.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re called Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes, a DIY air purifier that was first conceived of in the summer of 2020 by two air filtration experts, Richard Corsi and Jim Rosenthal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, teachers and parents have been sharing photos on social media of do-it-yourself air purifiers that they\u2019ve made for classrooms to help protect kids from COVID-19 transmission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/this-diy-air-purifier-costs-far-less-than-a-hepa-purifier-and-studies-say-it-works\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This DIY air purifier costs far less than a HEPA purifier, and studies say it works<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[242,18,45,44,14],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-corsi-rosenthal-boxes","tag-covid-19","tag-hepa-filters","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}