{"id":9238,"date":"2025-04-16T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:57:47","slug":"a-new-uv-light-may-help-stop-future-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/16\/a-new-uv-light-may-help-stop-future-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"A New UV Light May Help Stop Future Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com\/news\/a-new-uv-light-may-help-stop-future-pandemics\/\">Infectious Disease Advisor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years after COVID-19 first hit the United States, scientists are already brainstorming how to stop the next big virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One possible solution? A special kind of ultraviolet light called far-UVC,&nbsp;<em>CBS News&nbsp;<\/em>reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike regular UVC light, which can be harmful to people, far-UVC has a shorter wavelength. That means it can kill viruses and bacteria in the air without damaging your skin or eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUV light really doesn\u2019t care about the details of whether it\u2019s a bacteria or a virus. It can kill all of them, essentially,\u201d Columbia University physicist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crr.columbia.edu\/profile\/david-j-brenner-phd\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"David Brenner, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Brenner<\/a>&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, far-UVC is being tested in places like a Boston nightclub, a dental clinic at Columbia as well as a rehab center at Mount Sinai Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers are using special rooms to see how well the light works in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rooms allow them to control airflow and humidity and measure how much virus is in the air before and after using the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say the development has been slow and steady,\u201d Brenner told&nbsp;<em>CBS News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says far-UVC looks promising, but more research is needed to confirm that it\u2019s safe and effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physicians.mountsinai.org\/participant\/david-putrino-phd\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"David Putrino, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Putrino<\/a>, a professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, installed the lights at a rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com\/news\/a-new-uv-light-may-help-stop-future-pandemics\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"mOnz hCjRnTLpSA qccDRo K\">mOnz hCjRnTLpSA qccDRo K<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infectious Disease Advisor Five years after COVID-19 first hit the United States, scientists are already brainstorming how to stop the next big virus. One possible solution? A special kind of ultraviolet light called far-UVC,&nbsp;CBS News&nbsp;reported. Unlike regular UVC light, which can be harmful to people, far-UVC has a shorter wavelength. That means it can kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}