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An ASU epidemiologist and her kids are building DIY air filters to help schools fight COVID-19

Lots of parents, teachers and students have found themselves recently with a timely project: making homemade air filters for classrooms and school spaces to help protect from the spread of COVID-19.

They’re called Corsi-Rosenthal cubes, and they’re not too complicated to make with some air filters, tape and a big box fan. But one epidemiologist at Arizona State University is taking this a step further.

Megan Jehn is an associate professor of global health at ASU, and she also leads the COVID-19 Community Response Teams there. And over the holiday break, she and her kids decided to construct the cube project on a bigger scale. The Show spoke with her to learn about it.

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Lauren Gilger, host of KJZZ's The Show, is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized.