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COVID-19 / Why not use UV C blood irradiation to neutralize SARS CoV 2?
« on: 20/04/2020 18:50:53 »
Before antibiotics, UVC blood irradiation was dramatically successful in the 1930s and 1940s against viral infections like viral pneumonia and polio virus. It is” a cure which time forgot” to quote a 1997 paper by Rowen. More recently, Michael Hamblin and a team at Harvard Medical School in a 2016 J Photobiol paper recommended that the intervention, known as the Knott technik after its discoverer, should be reinvestigated as a treatment. The SARS COV 2 virus has a diameter of 120nm and will be resonated to destruction by UVC at around 240nm. The treatment only irradiates about 5 percent of the donor whole blood which is anticoagulated and reintroduced to the circulation via a normal saline drip. From some 6000 applications it has become clear that one outcome of the treatment is a dramatic increase in he oxygen-carrying capability of haemoglobin. It is simple, virtually costless, and can be administered in ten minutes by any competent phlebotomist. Given that a vaccine will take many months to develop, if at all, it is sensible, surely, to re-visit this proven harmless but effective procedure as a promising new treatment for COVID patients?