A few days ago, Trump was ridiculed for asking if UV light or commercial disinfectants could be used to treat Covid19.
Marketforum discussed how the MSM twisted the disinfection story in a thread below.
How about that Trump comment about UV? Equally ridiculous?
As it turns out, Cedars Sinai Hospital is indeed working with a Biotech company to treat lung infections with UV light. OF course, it is still in the experimental stage, at this time.
Interesting, eh?
Even more astonishing is the fact that Youtube removed videos describing this process, and Twitter suspended the account of the biotech company. How deep does their hatred run?
Thanks very much for bringing this up!
metmike: Lest we forget that President Trump also suggested that WE STUDY the use of UV treatments on the body to kill the virus. Turns out that it was a wonderful idea and we did it safely and effectively with blood in the past, before antibiotics.. With the lungs, it sounds possible based on the far UV-C radiation that does no damage to skin or human tissues but kills COVID-19. Not saying it will work for sure in the lungs but its a brilliant idea and deserves studying.
Columbia researcher David Brenner believes far-UVC light—safe for humans, but lethal for viruses—could be a ‘game changer.’
By Carla Cantor April 21, 2020https://insights.regencylighting.com/can-uv-light-kill-viruses-like-covid-19
Germicidal UV utilizes the wavelengths between 200 to 280 nm. Far-UVC also falls within germicidal UV, but uses a smaller segment of wavelengths. You can read more on far-UVC and its effectiveness below.
UV-A and UV-B light can also kill some bacteria and germs, but is ineffective against viruses like COVID-19.
metmike: Note that Far-UVC is SAFE FOR SKIN AND EYES!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122858/
"Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was extensively used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma and even poliomyelitis. The early studies were carried out by several physicians in USA and published in the American Journal of Surgery. However with the development of antibiotics, UBI use declined and it has now been called “the cure that time forgot”. Later studies were mostly performed by Russian workers and in other Eastern countries and the modern view in Western countries is that UBI remains highly controversial.
This chapter discusses the potential of UBI as an alternative approach to current methods used to treat infections, as an immune-modulating therapy and as a method for normalizing blood parameters. No resistance of microorganisms to UV irradiation has been reported, and multi- antibiotic resistant strains are as susceptible as their wild-type counterparts. Low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA, while any DNA damage in host cells can be rapidly repaired by DNA repair enzymes"
Trump actually sounds like a frickin genius with his creative ideas after one does the actual research and these MSM know it alls that we trust to interpret our information ............. are actually closed minded, hateful know nothings that can't even do basic science checks before they bash President Trump for brilliant ideas.
Oh, don't mind me. I've only been a scientist for 38+ years and couldn't possibly know as much as the reporters at CNN, the NYT or the Washington Post.
1. Far UVC light does not damage skin/eyes and kills virus's. There might very well be a way to transport something down into the lungs that emits far UV light that would kill the virus there. This sounds possible. We should study this and try to use this knowledge to devise an effective treatment in the lungs if possible.
2. Irradiation of blood was done extensively before antibiotics.........and was used safely in the 1940's/50's to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma and even poliomyelitis.
My question is........why aren't we looking at this now? Maybe we are but are just not hearing about it. It's possible that these will not be effective treatments for COVID-19. However, they are proven completely safe and make total sense based on the principles of science and their proven ability to effectively destroy pathogens, which would include the coronavirus, so they absolutely justify additional studies, with a decent potential for some use as a viable method of treatment.