I was wondering if anyone has looked into the use of Far UVC light as a way of treating Covid-19. Far UVC light has a strong antiviral effect but has minimal effect on mammalian cells compared to UVC light. By use of a Thoracosopy technique a fiber optic Far UVC light source could be introduced into a patients lungs and target the Covid-19 cells. Combining this with Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI) may be a therapeutic treatment that in some critical cases could be applied until such time as a true drug therapy can be applied.
Please let me know your thoughts
Would this be a possible therapeutic that could potentially be something work considering for extreme cases.
Dear friends!
It is interesting to know what minimum wavelength of light is needed and what power per square centimeter is needed in order to kill the virus in 15-30 seconds?
Sincerely, Ivan Ivanovich Dolgov 20200410 Д\д
Then how will it be possible to radiate it into the lungs since covid 19 is not a airborne disease
Through a Thoracosopy technique a fiber optic Far UVC light source could be introduced into a patients lungs. This would be done to illuminate the lungs to the Far UVC Light for a brief time period to kill the virus while not killing the lung tissue. Also through UBI the patients blood would be passed through a device that exposes the plasma to Far UVC light before it is reentered into the patients body.
Came across this press release and thought it was relevant to this discussion.
https://apnews.com/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b
There have been many studies over 100 years on UVC based blood irradiation therapy. Early reports relate case studies on sepsis and a variety of viral illnesses. Overall these have not been randomized clinical trials and the mechanisms of action not defined. In regard to SARS-Cov-2 - this is not a blood borne virus.
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