McKnight’s Senior Living April 5, 2024
A new light-based sterilization system has shown promise for destroying airborne viruses without some of the issues of previous systems, research shows.
Such technology could be extremely useful in long-term care facilities, where there is a disproportionate threat of diseases like COVID and the flu compromising residents’ health.
In fact, the far-UV could be ideally suited to protecting against COVID, the study authors said.
Although UV sterilization technology isn’t new, most systems require a room to be empty, as the light can damage a persons’ eyes and skin as if they’d spent too much time inside a tanning bed.
That in turn renders such methods less effective because an empty room could be sterilized only to become a virus-laden danger...
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