Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

Anecdata I was living very close to a busy highway, and my young daughter was wheazing when she had a cold, we had to give her medicine via a nebulizer. When we moved out to the country more, far away from any major roads, these issues all disappeared within a couple months.

Using scientists being "stunned" should take the same amount of relevance as someone being "slammed" in article titles.

I've needed my inhaler way less since the ULEZ came in.

Visiting London used to mean blowing your nose to black snot for a week afterwards, these days living in London it's pretty good.

> strongest evidence yet that local clean air zones could help reduce some of the harm caused by pollution during childhood.

It's incredible this is even in debate. It's one of those intuitive things well known since the reduction of coal burning and smog during the industrial revolution in London?

s/stunned/pleased/

I use air purifiers mounted on my windows, running continuously except in the deep summer and deep winter. This makes my air contain 50-100x fewer particulates than the outdoor air. In contrast, the best I can achieve with floor air purifiers as people have them is a 5-10x reduction. The window purifiers also keep excess CO2 and VOCs out.

So punchline, probably a good idea to electrify all the cars yeah?