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Integrating a continuously operating ceiling-mounted UV-based air purification system into existing protocols for infection ...

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Scientists have been considering new ways to tackle disease, but there is already a rather powerful disinfectant that we’ve known of for a century: UV light. Despite this, UV light isn’t consistently ...