Time Magazine with Dr. Omar Shakeel: How to Clean Your House Like an Oncologist

Air purifiers with HEPA filters trap fine particulates—things like PM2.5, the tiny particles that cause the most damage when inhaled because they’re small enough to slip past the body’s defenses and lodge deep in the lungs. “There are studies coming out saying that if you give air purifiers to patients, they end up in the hospital less, with fewer respiratory infections,” says Dr. Omar Shakeel, a pediatric oncologist who leads the Survivorship Clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital and also partners with CCEP.