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Could 'far-UVC' light mitigate the spread of COVID-19?

2020-09-12 | 🔗
New technology being used to help protect gyms, senior living facilities, offices and restaurants.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Plus zero percent interest for thirty six months ends Monday ends Monday fighting the coronavirus with light one company using a type of ultraviolet, light to kill ninety nine point: nine percent of viruses and bacteria in the air and on surfaces now being used in offices, restaurants, gyms senior living facilities across the country and even by across the country, and even by the Miami Dolphins, the founder and Chief Ross moment as a board member of a condominium in New Jersey, which is now reopened its Jim thanks to this technology. Thank you for being here. This is a fascinating topic. I want to start with you Fred explain how this works and show us a little bit of how this is us a little bit of how this is implemented and what it looks like.
First of all, this has been around for the last fifteen years in terms of research and the research out of New York. Doctor David Brenner of Colombia proved how effective this is the other piece about it is. It is safe for the human body. It does not penetrate your skin to cause us any harm. You can use this light as we utilize the space ourselves. It is a down light replacement unit with a light source around it. It has a uvc matter in the middle that puts out the two nanometer light. The will clean our air and our surfaces in real time as we use the space and causes no harm behind me is a portal. The portal has the same light source Senate and you walk through that
Senate and you walk through that portal and make a turn, and we clean our surfaces to reduce the clean our surfaces to reduce the pathogen load. You have implemented this in New Jersey. You are a board member. How have you implemented and what is the reaction of residents we have implemented? Both the products also included the air sanitization proper, which is running behind two amazing and generally circulating the air generally circulating the air using the uv light Fred mentioned the board members and our manager and staff and employees and members. It has
been very positive, very proactive approach, but we have antimicrobial pads on our door handles. We take it very seriously. We believe the health institution is one layer for continuous. We feel this is continuous and a safer environment, any combination of masks- this is fascinating and I know we will see a lot more of.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-12.