
Schools spending millions on air purifiers often sold using overblown claims
CNN
A KHN investigation found that more than 2,000 schools have spent millions of dollars for systems, lured by air purifier companies' claims that experts say mislead or obscure the potential for harm from toxic ozone.
The report doesn't say how this reduction was measured, and in September, the company's founder incidentally mentioned that the devices being offered for sale would actually deliver a lot less ion power -- 13 times less -- into a full-sized room. The company nonetheless used the shoebox results in marketing its device heavily to schools as something that could combat Covid in classrooms far, far larger than a shoebox.
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