The air purifier you bought during the pandemic may still help you breathe better now [Video]

Risks from the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly intense wildfire seasons have sparked interest in air purifiers as a tool to keep indoor air healthy. But experts say they can be just as important in helping manage indoor air pollution when there isn’t an acute air crisis.Related video above: How the air quality in your home could change with the addition of a Christmas treeAir purifiers purchased during the pandemic to zap airborne coronavirus particles can also help reduce the amount of allergens and other irritants linked to asthma and other respiratory diseases. However, scientists are still working to understand how to measure their effectiveness on a broad scale.Other interventions – particularly ventilating indoor air by introducing new outdoor air and directly removing the source of indoor air pollution – may have a bigger impact on health outcomes, and they’ve been the focus of recent federal action.The U.S. Centers for Disease …