DO UV SANITIZERS WORK?
While there isn’t proof that UV sanitizers destroy the
novel coronavirus, the National Academies of Science,
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standards for UV disinfection technology settings.
Furthermore, CleanSlate, a company that sells UV-C
sanitizing solutions to the healthcare, hospitality, and
food processing industries, released data in July showing
that UV-C light can kill 99.979 percent of MS2
bacteriophage, a surrogate for viral human pathogens
such as the novel coronavirus, in just 20 seconds. Since
most commercial laboratories don’t meet containment
standards for handling the novel coronavirus, such
testing is as close as we can get for the time being.
Many hospitals already use UV light to disinfect against
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network of hospitals have used UV disinfection for years.
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found UV disinfection can reduce transmission of the
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and Acinetobacter—by a cumulative 30 percent.
Airlines and hotels are also betting big on the technology.
JetBlue started testing a UV light robot earlier this year
that’s able to disinfect an entire airline cabin within 10
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its properties.
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kill 99.979
percent of MS2
bacteriophage, a
surrogate for
viral human
pathogens such
as the novel
coronavirus.