{"id":16490,"date":"2020-07-22T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16490"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:25:19","slug":"scientists-want-to-know-more-about-using-uv-light-to-fight-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16490","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Know More About Using UV Light to Fight COVID-19 Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Will Stone for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>High up near the ceiling, in the dining room of his Seattle-area restaurant, Musa Firat recently installed a \u201ckilling zone\u201d \u2014 a place where swaths of invisible electromagnetic energy penetrate the air, ready to disarm the coronavirus and other dangerous pathogens that drift upward in tiny, airborne particles.<\/p>\n<p>Firat\u2019s new system draws on a\u00a0century-old\u00a0technology for\u00a0fending\u00a0off infectious diseases: Energetic waves of ultraviolet light \u2014 known as germicidal UV, or GUV \u2014 are delivered in the right dose to wipe out viruses, bacteria and other microorganisms.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/scientists-want-to-know-more-about-using-uv-light-to-fight-covid-19-spread\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Will Stone for Kaiser Health News) High up near the ceiling, in the dining room of his Seattle-area restaurant,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16491,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16490\/revisions\/16491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}