The volume of air in which humans breathe (from 0 to 3 meters in height) is the place where warming, pollution and disease mingle, combine and reinforce each other. Breathing is now more deadly than smoke. The cost to public health is € 150 billion per year in the European Union and 4 billion in Switzerland.

Covid-19 has brought to light the fact that where pollution is greatest, disease is most severe and deadliest. With each breath, in fact, the lungs are pierced by ultrafine particles, opening a royal route to viruses.

To protect yourself from pandemics, you must also protect yourself from fine (PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM1) particles.

To learn more about the pollution-virus relationship of the coronavirus:

https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/environnement/coronavirus-pourquoi-l-exposition-a-la-pollution-de-l-air-est-un-facteur-aggravant_2122476.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/climate/air-pollution-coronavirus-covid.html

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm

The Covid-19 can be caught by aerosols, that is to say even at a long distance from a source of the virus because the micro-droplets can remain suspended in the air of a closed space for several hours.

to learn more about the transmission of the virus by aerosols:

https://www.rtbf.be/info/dossier/epidemie-de-coronavirus/detail_coronavirus-une-video-montre-les-millions-de-micro-gouttelettes-en-suspension-prolongee-dans-l-air-mais-sont-elles-contagieuses?id=10474722   

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/modeliser-la-propagation-du-coronavirus-dans-l-air-pour-mieux-s-en-proteger-20200506

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wne86iXw4p0#action=share

COVID-19 highlights the urgent need to tackle the problem of polluted air.

This is why Catecar, after creating the first depolluting car, has designed a line of products producing depolluted and virus-free air, for individual and / or collective use.

Catecar Industries SA, 6 avenue du Lac
1814 la Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
mail : catecar@catecar.ch