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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? (www.vox.com)

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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?::Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I can't really blame people for not reading it, They take a long time to get to the point and they're not very cohesive even once they get there.

I just read an NIH meta study on ozone and covid about half the studies aren't very useful, as is always the case with meta studies. It seems, at least with the variant they tested that the virus is not particularly susceptible to oxidation. The one study did note that it slightly lowered It's ability to infect which may be useful.

Thing is, ozone's pretty rough even on healthy lungs. I think the main worry is cancer risk over time which is a real bummer.

It's hard because we're absolutely walking germ factors and anything strong enough to truly knock out the germs is strong enough to damage us over time.

I wonder is in 100 years will have robots in stores walking around behind us sterilizing everything we touch.