Chelsea Montgomery is a participant in both the Evict Radon study and the pandemic-related survey.
She had her home in southwest Calgary tested in 2018. She said her home's radon levels were about twice the Canadian guideline, so she installed a sub-slab depressurization in 2019. She said her levels quickly dropped to well below the guidelines.
When the pandemic hit, she started working full-time from her home and has continued to since.
"I am so happy that we tested and had the opportunity … to remediate, because had we not known, we wouldn't have known otherwise, until potentially it's too late," she said.
Montgomery said it's not just work — because of travel and social restrictions, everyone is spending more time at home.
"Now, more than ever … it's important that people are testing and understanding what their levels are in their home."
Of the nearly 20,000 surveys sent out this week, Goodarzi said they've already received 1,700 back.
"So we hope that everyone else will take that seven minutes or so to respond to us. And it will be an extremely statistical, powerful study," he said.
He expects initial results to be released sometime in 2021.
Dr. Aaron Goodarzi, assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Calgary, says cancer researchers are studying shifting radon exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Weston Jacques/CBC)
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