I'm returning to this real world example of Far-UVC deployment because the results are *so astonishing*.
A 92% ⬇️in respiratory infections across 3 aged care facilities is just utterly massive.
That’s the effective elimination of all respiratory illness. ecobay-tech.com/blog/case-stud…
Importantly, the Far-UVC systems comprehensively covered each site, and the benefits went way beyond residents health.
A big ⬇️in staff sickness , more efficient cleaning and a ⬆️demand for places meant the investment was repaid
in 9 months!!
$175,000 annual saving *per site*.
The company is now rolling out Far-UVC to *all* their homes over the next 18 months.
I talk about Far-UVC not because I think it will replace all public health/medicines, but because it is largely overlooked & misunderstood by so many.
It will have a huge impact on society.
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1/12 As the efficacy, eye and skin safety of Far-UVC have largely been proven, the debate has now moved onto air quality. Superficially this paper suggests problems, but...
2/12 Firstly, the paper is a model. My background is in computational chemistry (albeit not in atmospheric chemistry) with published papers on improving mathematical models for simulating complex chemical systems.
3/12 Models can often provide insight, but can also be wildly incorrect, and are secondary to real world observation. They are only as good as the assumptions applied and the quality of the input data.
1/6 I don’t give commercial endorsements, but this, from the Building Better Healthcare journal, provides a glimpse into a future where healthcare facilities become much safer places. buildingbetterhealthcare.com/fms-agrees-str…
2/6 Key points:
In the UK, the collaboration of expertise from two distinct industries – Medico Far-UVC technologies and Facility Monitoring Systems Ltd (providing real-time particle monitoring), is very promising.
3/6 Rapid, effective, low energy and chemical free Far-UVC decontamination is of utmost importance to many sectors. For example, the NHS spends £1.5 billion/yr on cleaning alone. Far-UVC can dramatically reduce this. digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor…
2/8 Let’s say £9.2bn is too expensive, save this money, and adopt a different approach.
Stop cleaning water!
We could:
- vaccinate everyone every couple of years for typhoid/cholera (c 60% efficacy, slightly better than COVID vaccines) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2180234/
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- resume polio vaccines for all and vaccinate against Hep A
- massively boost production of antibiotics, treatments for dysentery, E.Coli, leptospirosis & Giardiasis etc. where we have no vaccines
- expect more work absences,⬆️ sickpay/economic losses
1/3 Still can't get over how this short interview provides a comprehensive view of what the future should look like. The two following quotes from Dr Ewan Eadie, NHS photobiologist & Far-UVC expert, say so much - infectioncontroltoday.com/view/far-uvc-t…
2/3 “I think the potential of Far-UVC is really incredible...the need for clean indoor air will bring us to the point where everybody appreciates the need for these types of technologies..to reduce the chance of getting sick”
3/3 “It’s real benefit is in the ability to be used in spaces where people exist and that’s a technology that isn’t really available..Most other technologies require the movement of air or the withdrawal of air as opposed to an inactivation within the space you are actually in”
1/4 Sadly so true, and just as relevant today as it was in 2022, this astute article on the problems of public health policy across the western world needs another airing. theconversation.com/why-covid-19-g…
2/4 “When infection risk is intrinsically social, the promotion of noxious ideological concepts like “individual choice” and “assessing your own risk” only encourages us to blame each other in the event of an outbreak."
3/4 "Unfortunately, western political leaders and some public health officials have decided to indulge the worst kind of individualist impulse: the desire to choose your own reality, including the fantasy that the pandemic is over.”
1/6 One for @WHO @DrTedros ? Thanks to @taniataylorpowe for posting this brilliant interview with Assistant Prof. of Public Health Jacob Bueno de Mesquita:
“Revolutionising indoor air quality to stop pandemics with Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV) technology” openaccessgovernment.org/article/revolu…
2/6 “Airborne viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and rhinovirus cause billions of instances of illness each year and lead to severe infection or death for up to tens of millions.”
3/6 The importance of airborne transmission...
“increases during pandemics, which can arise rapidly... we may not have a vaccine ready, and even if one is available, it is unlikely that everyone on the planet will be immunized before encountering the pandemic pathogen.”