the concept of UBI is not new
Far UV light is not new - God made it many years ago
love this idea. reminds me of how Captain Kirk, Spock and McCoy saved Spock and a whole planetary colony from an alien super infection with a dosing of high intensity sunlight. yeah, i know, i was a Star Trek geek as a kid.
Yeah. Inject it into the body. Trump was on to something.
If the eyes are not affected, the rays must be relatively safe for human cells in general,
Perhaps the patient's blood could be run thru a dialysis-type machine and be irradiated as it passed thru a field of the correctly modulated UV rays, breaking down the virus on contact.
Determining strength and type of ray as well as length of time on the machine would be in the hands of the research team.
President Trump may have discovered a new direction for the scientists.
I don’t know if this will work, but I can pretty much guarantee you that if WalMart or Target put up these lamps in their stores, there’d be some cohort of folks claiming that they got skin cancer or vision problems or some other malady as result of UV lights shining on them.
From Science Daily in 2017 UV light can aid hospitals' fight to wipe out drug-resistant superbugs
Excerpt:
"A new tool -- a type of ultraviolet light called UVC -- could aid hospitals in the ongoing battle to keep drug-resistant bacteria from lingering in patient rooms and causing new infections.
Some hospitals have already begun using UVC machines in addition to standard chemical disinfection to kill potentially dangerous bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), but research on their effectiveness has been preliminary.
A large randomized trial led by Duke Health and published in The Lancet finds use of UVC machines can cut transmission of four major superbugs by a cumulative 30 percent. The finding is specific to patients who stay overnight in a room where someone with a known positive culture or infection of a drug-resistant organism had previously been treated.
"Some of these germs can live on the environment so long that even after a patient with the organism has left the room and it has been cleaned, the next patient in the room could potentially be exposed," said Deverick J. Anderson, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at Duke Health and lead investigator of the trial, which included more than 21,000 patients.
"Infections from one of these bugs are tough and expensive to treat and can be truly debilitating for a patient. For hospitals, these infections also cause a burden of costs that often aren't reimbursable."
The researchers focused on four drug-resistant organisms: MRSA, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), C. difficile and Acinetobacter.
The trial was conducted from 2012 to 2014 at nine hospitals in the Southeast, including three Duke University Health System hospitals, a Veterans Affairs hospital, and small community health care settings.
The facilities used a portable machine called the Tru-D SmartUVC to disinfect rooms where patients with the target bacteria had been staying. For about 30 minutes, the machine emits UVC light into an empty room, the light bouncing and reflecting into hard-to-reach areas such as open drawers or between cabinets and fixtures. The light waves kill bacteria by disrupting their DNA.
The trial compared standard disinfection with quaternary ammonium to three other cleaning methods: using quaternary ammonium followed by UV light; using chlorine bleach instead of quaternary ammonium and no UV light; and cleaning with bleach and UV light.
Overall, the most effective strategy was using quaternary ammonium followed by UV light. This combination was particularly effective against transmission of MRSA.
The researchers found that using chlorine bleach instead of quaternary ammonium cut transmissions of VRE by more than half. Adding UV light to the bleach regimen was even more successful, cutting VRE transmission by 64 percent.
None of the cleaning methods significantly reduced the incidence of C. difficile, an infection that takes hold in the gut. The incidence of Acinetobacter was limited to one case, so researchers did not include it in their analyses."
Put artificial ultraviolet light on nonliving surfaces overnight—not on people.
Let them experiment by putting the UV lights on administrators in offices for a few years first.
Hmmm. The media is going to have to shoot down something created by Columbia University. That should be interesting.
Bump
We need to deplete the ozone layer STAT.
Purchased two pocket sized UVC wands for use on gas pumps and baskcart handles.
I read about this before and think that this can be a real growth field, supplying those who think it is worth it and have the money. As it is office building and hospitals can be a petri dish if not carefully ventilated. Air Conditioning Appears To Spread Coronavirus—But Opening Windows Could Stop It, Studies Suggest
1. Far-UV disinfection is faster and far more effective than UV-C..2. Far-UV is not dangerous to humans — it can't penetrate eyes and skin..3. Far UV-C is superior to conventional disinfection methods.- https://www.hepacart.com/blog/effective-uv-disinfection-lights-4-benefits-of-far-uv-sterilray
Fight Coronavirus With All Time Air Conditioning
I wonder if those indoor bug zappers produce produce enough UV to be of any service at all - other than attracting the occasional fruit fly.
It isn’t new. UV has been used for decades to sanitize.
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