Tadd Lascari

Oct 29, 2023 | cbsnews.com | Jonathan LaPook |Aliza Chasan |Andrew Wolff |Tadd Lascari

Joe Allen thinks about air a lot. Specifically, the air we breathe indoors. For the Harvard professor, founder of the university's Healthy Buildings Program, our building design and public health officials have ignored indoor air systems for too long – that is, until the COVID pandemic hit. But by then, it was too late. That lack of attention contributed to tens of thousands of COVID cases, Allen says.