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© 2020 AFPSunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, U.S. official claims
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ulysses
Hopefully we get enough lawsuits to drive Faux into bankruptcy and the band of bigots join the unemployed!!!!
ulysses
If we listened to Donny all Covid patients would be subject to UV blasts and injected with disinfectants!!!!
Thankfully America has some of the best doctors in the world who ignore their lunatic clown of a President.
Busby
Expect Trump to try to patent sunlight, then package it and sell as a "Trump Sunshine - Cure for All"....
He'll sell it to our friends, allies, and enemies too - as long as they have some dirt on Biden to trade....
Ah_so
Given how numbers are taking off in Singapore, I wouldn't get too excited.
smithinjapan
bass4funk: And forgot to point out that's on top of the US being the worst terms of response, and leading the world in infection and deaths, too, because of their advice and suggestions.
Jimizo
From American scientists you’d listen. You wouldn’t listen to the president who looks on course to restart the Tide pod challenge.
voiceofokinawa
That's great news indeed. Every cloud has a silver lining. There's some people, though, who point out that the epidemic is also spreading in tropical countries where sunlight and humidity are affluent. Look at some countries in the southern hemisphere where it's summer there now, yet being hit by the epidemic, they may say.
But I have a different view from such claims. Life styles are being leveled off wherever one goes in today’s world. People live in air-conditioned houses, work in air-conditioned offices and shop in air-conditioned super markets. So there's no difference between tropical, temperate and cold regions in today's world.
bass4funk
You are joking, right?
smithinjapan
browny1: "A somewhat strange announcement considering UV light disinfection has been common in clinics, hospitals, dentists etc for years. It is often used in conjunction with chemical disinfectants for maximum effect."
Not really. Simple UV light can be used to disinfect inanimate objects with no harm, but with living things it penetrates the skin and can cause skin cancer and other complications. So, it is a specific type of UV that they are experimenting with (called "Far-UVC"). It's not like you can just open one of those shoe cases with the UV light and pour it onto patients with, or to avoid, Covid-19. Hence, the announcement.
Of course, Trump decided to speak out loud and talk about blasting people with "really powerful lights" and what not while the scientists chuckled and said, "Ummm... interesting..." to make him feel smart, but hey.
browny1
A somewhat strange announcement considering UV light disinfection has been common in clinics, hospitals, dentists etc for years. It is often used in conjunction with chemical disinfectants for maximum effect.
Many companies produce the devices & systems for UV-C(wavelength 200~400nm) which can destroy pathogens in seconds.
Even barbers / hairdressers use such to disinfect their tools of the trade.
Chip Star
You seem to be conflating the medical/scientific advice being outrageously expensive with it being faulty. It’s some of the best I’m the world, it’s just not reasonably accessible to many.
Tom
Using the term half life as if this was a nucleotide is odd. Even if one virus survives out of a million, if it goes in your body it will multiply like crazy unlike one radioactive particle.
Tokyo-Engr
Actually the component of sunlight which effectively kills (or reduces the 1/2 life of) the virus is Ultraviolet Radiation (UV). The UV component of sunlight is also an effective disinfectant to a degree.
In the late 80s when I was performing engineering work in the U.S. some wastewater treatment plants started to use UV to treat wastewater streams and reduce the use of chemicals. The ability to kill microbes and viruses was well documented and proven.
However I do not believe this means a change of seasons will suddenly eliminate the virus however it may decrease infection rates.
As everyone knows masks are in limited supply. We have south facing windows and I have been hanging my masks which require reuse such that they will get direct sunlight (UV). Absolutely not perfect but anything that helps is good.
Blacklabel
here we go again. Yes UV light can destroy coronavirus in some situations. Which is what was said and the topic of this article.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light
n1k1
lovely jubbly ! go photons !
Jimizo
Encouraging news.