Kansas Suggested Schools Use Chemical Foggers To Fight COVID. Here's Why They Shouldn't

The nation's experts worry schools blew stimulus money on foggers, bipolar ionizers and other gadgets and could unknowingly make classrooms unhealthier.


State officials told Kansas schools they could fill the air with chemical mist to fight COVID-19 in classrooms.

The suggested gadgets coat doorknobs, tables and other surfaces with disinfectant.

But when the Kansas News Service showed the state guidance on electrostatic sprayers and foggers to scientists, one called it “surprising and disappointing.” Another classified it as “a huge error.”

The foggers and sprayers could actually make the air unhealthier, experts warned, without making people safer from COVID-19.

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