{"id":3486,"date":"2023-11-27T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:41:48","slug":"study-air-purifier-use-at-daycare-centres-cut-kids-sick-days-by-a-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-air-purifier-use-at-daycare-centres-cut-kids-sick-days-by-a-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids\u2019 sick days by a third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use of air purifiers at two daycare centres in Helsinki led to a reduction in illnesses and absences among children and staff, according to preliminary findings of a new study led by E3 Pandemic Response.<\/p>\n<p>Air purifiers of various sizes and types were placed in two of the city\u2019s daycare centres during cold and flu seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The initial results from the first year of research are promising, according to researcher Enni Sanmark, from HUS Helsinki University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren were clearly less sick in daycare centres where air purification devices were used \u2014 down by around 30&nbsp;percent,\u201d Sanmark explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of air purifiers at two daycare centres in Helsinki led to a reduction in illnesses and absences among children and staff, according to preliminary findings of a new study led by E3 Pandemic Response.<\/p>\n<p>Air purifiers of various sizes and types were placed in two of the city\u2019s daycare centres during cold and flu seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The initial results from the first year of research are promising, according to researcher Enni Sanmark, from HUS Helsinki University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren were clearly less sick in daycare centres where air purification devices were used \u2014 down by around 30&nbsp;percent,\u201d Sanmark explained.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-air-purifier-use-at-daycare-centres-cut-kids-sick-days-by-a-third\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids\u2019 sick days by a third<\/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":[244,26,242,18,647,334,648,649,45,650,44,8,14,202],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-filters","tag-children","tag-corsi-rosenthal-boxes","tag-covid-19","tag-daycares","tag-european-union","tag-finland","tag-helsinki","tag-hepa-filters","tag-hus-helsinki-university-hospital","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-students","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","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=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}