Could a New Ultraviolet Technology Fight the Spread of Coronavirus?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Could a New Ultraviolet Technology Fight the Spread of Coronavirus?
Columbia researcher David Brenner believes far-UVC light—safe for humans, but lethal for viruses—could be a ‘game changer.’
Columbia University, Apr 21, 2020

A technique that zaps airborne viruses with a narrow-wavelength band of UV light shows promise for curtailing the person-to-person spread of COVID-19 in indoor public places.

The technology, developed by Columbia University’s Center for Radiological Research, uses lamps that emit continuous, low doses of a particular wavelength of ultraviolent light, known as far-UVC, which can kill viruses and bacteria without harming human skin, eyes and other tissues, as is the problem with conventional UV light.

“Far-UVC light has the potential to be a ‘game changer,’” said David Brenner, professor of radiation biophysics and director of the center. “It can be safely used in occupied public spaces, and it kills pathogens in the air before we can breathe them in.”

The research team’s experiments have shown far-UVC effective in eradicating two types of airborne seasonal coronaviruses (the ones that cause coughs and colds). The researchers are now testing the light against the SARS-CoV-2 virus at Columbia in a biosafety laboratory, with encouraging results, Brenner said.

The team previously found the method effective in inactivating the airborne H1N1 influenza virus, as well as drug-resistant bacteria. And multiple, long-term studies on animals and humans have confirmed that exposure to far-UVC does not cause damage to the skin or eyes.


More:  https://news.columbia.edu/ultraviolet-technology-virus-covid-19-UV-light

[Right_in_Virginia]

Kaya Jones
@KayaJones

There’s no money in natural healthcare because you can’t approve what God has already granted. Why because it’s 100% Organic.
Here’s a visual example of Injecting UV light into the body of a patient as a disinfectant to kill viruses and bacteria.

Video at link: 

https://twitter.com/KayaJones/status/1253680606048849923

9:42 AM · Apr 24, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

[mountaineer]

Read about it here.

[Right_in_Virginia]

AYTU Healight

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZHQbKe9TtI&feature=youtu.be

Apr 23, 2020

[Cyber Liberty]

AYTU Healight

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZHQbKe9TtI&feature=youtu.be

Apr 23, 2020

"Video removed for violating Terms of Service."    Must have been something not approved by WHO.

[PeteS in CA]

I think two different things are being discussed, but from @mountaineer's post on another thread:

  Aytu BioScience Signs Exclusive Global License with Cedars-Sinai for Potential Coronavirus Treatment
ACCESSWIRE
April 20, 2020

Cedars-Sinai-Developed ‘Healight' Medical Device Platform Technology Being Studied as a Potential First-in-Class COVID-19 Treatment

Conference Call Scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 4:30 pm ET

ENGLEWOOD, CO / ACCESSWIRE / April 20, 2020 / Aytu BioScience, Inc. (AYTU) (the "Company"), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing novel products that address significant patient needs announced today that it has signed an exclusive worldwide license from Cedars-Sinai to develop and commercialize the Healight Platform Technology ("Healight"). This medical device technology platform, discovered and developed by scientists at Cedars-Sinai, is being studied as a potential first-in-class treatment for coronavirus and other respiratory infections.

The company will host a live conference call and webcast Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Conference call details are provided at the end of this press release.

Led by Mark Pimentel, MD, the research team of the Medically Associated Science and Technology (MAST) Program at Cedars-Sinai has been developing the patent-pending Healight platform since 2016 and has produced a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating pre-clinical safety and effectiveness of the technology as an antiviral and antibacterial treatment. The Healight technology employs proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device. Pre-clinical findings indicate the technology's significant impact on eradicating a wide range of viruses and bacteria, inclusive of coronavirus. The data have been the basis of discussions with the FDA for a near-term path to enable human use for the potential treatment of coronavirus in intubated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Beyond the initial pursuit of a coronavirus ICU indication, additional data suggest broader clinical applications for the technology across a range of viral and bacterial pathogens. This includes bacteria implicated in ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).

"Our team has shown that administering a specific spectrum of UV-A light can eradicate viruses in infected human cells (including coronavirus) and bacteria in the area while preserving healthy cells," stated Dr. Pimentel of Cedars-Sinai. Ali Rezaie, MD, one of the inventors of this technology states, "Our lab at Cedars-Sinai has extensively studied the effects of this unique technology on bacteria and viruses. Based on our findings we believe this therapeutic approach has the potential to significantly impact the high morbidity and mortality of coronavirus-infected patients and patients infected with other respiratory pathogens. We are looking forward to partnering with Aytu BioScience to move this technology forward for the benefit of patients all over the world."

The company believes the Healight platform technology has the potential to positively impact outcomes for critically ill patients infected with coronavirus and severe respiratory infections.   ...

Rest of press release

The great thing about both of these developments is that they are broadly applicable, not just to this coronavirus. My brain immediately went to, "Can this Far-UVC device be used in airliner air circulation systems?"

[Hoodat]

A new ultraviolet technology

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Video removed for violating Terms of Service."    Must have been something not approved by WHO.

Wow, that was fast.   This one will be gone soon, too ... @Cyber Liberty

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0VS-zPzTM&feature=youtu.be

[Cyber Liberty]

Wow, that was fast.   This one will be gone soon, too ... @Cyber Liberty

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0VS-zPzTM&feature=youtu.be

It's still there....

I thought "Injecting them with sunlight" was a joke, but there's a patient in that video getting the UVs from a catheter inserted into a vein in an arm.  Way cool.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Here's another video (while it's still there).  Video is of a presentation and explains how the UV light is introduced directly into the body and when it has been used. 

Using Light as a Natural Antibiotic
Published on Aug 2, 2012

When medicines have failed, this therapy has helped thousands!

Early this year, the Riordan Clinic introduced a safe and natural therapy called Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI). This is a closed-loop system that safely exposes a small amount of the patient's blood to germicidal ultraviolet light rays. Blood-borne pathogens in the light-treated blood are killed or inactivated.

These neutralized pathogens then act as antigens which trigger a natural vaccination-like response by the patient's own immune system. In essence, ultraviolet light used in this way helps the body create its own antibiotic response to any chronic infection the patient may be harboring. Our patients have already reported many great successes with this therapy. The Riordan Clinic notes a number of non-infectious conditions that UBI may also be used for with significant benefits.


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[jmyrlefuller]

Of course, the risk with exposing UV light within the body is that you damage cells, too, and risk developing lung cancer especially. It's something worthy of exploration but there's a reason most disinfectants are highly poisonous if injected. They kill ANYTHING.

[Smokin Joe]

Read about it here.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122858/pdf/nihms-986489.pdf

[Smokin Joe]

Here's another video (while it's still there).  Video is of a presentation and explains how the UV light is introduced directly into the body and when it has been used. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JgqHF9rq3Q&feature=emb_logo&app=desktop

These neutralized pathogens then act as antigens which trigger a natural vaccination-like response by the patient's own immune system. In essence, ultraviolet light used in this way helps the body create its own antibiotic response to any chronic infection the patient may be harboring.

That makes as much sense as using killed virii to make a vaccine, it's basically the same reaction without the squalenes.

[PeteS in CA]

"Video removed for violating Terms of Service."    Must have been something not approved by WHO.

Looks like an ignorant NYT "reporter" got Goog Tube to remove something that is both mainstream and true, https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/snitching_reporter_from_nyt_sees_bid_to_censor_cedarssinai_for_covid19_light_research_blow_up_in_her_face.html .

[Smokin Joe]

peer reviewed on UV light injection: Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”?
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2017 ; 996: 295–309. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56017-5_25

[mountaineer]

Looks like an ignorant NYT "reporter" got Goog Tube to remove something that is both mainstream and true

There are no true news reporters left (except maybe at the small town newspapers) - just propagandists.

[Smokin Joe]

There are no true news reporters left (except maybe at the small town newspapers) - just propagandists.

I haven't pulled the trigger on the Epoch Times yet, so I can't say there are none, just terribly few.

[mountaineer]

Mike Coudrey  @MichaelCoudrey
UPDATE: @Twitter
 just suspended the account of the publicly traded biotech company AYTU BioScience that created a novel COVID-19 treatment approach utilizing UV light in the lungs that @realDonaldTrump
 was talking about.
This is ridiculous!



Mike Coudrey @MichaelCoudrey
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Wow. YouTube takes down biotech company’s video describing their novel UV light treatment for COVID-19 patients.

“We are proud to have teamed up with @MarkPimentelMD and his team at @CedarsSinai” -Josh Disbrow AYTU Bioscience CEO

https://twitter.com/josh_disbrow/status/1253499856280326145

11:47 PM · Apr 25, 2020

[Absalom]

Hmm............... injecting sunlight???
Er....how bout a twofer and also injecting brains!!!

[Smokin Joe]

Hmm............... injecting sunlight???
Er....how bout a twofer and also injecting brains!!!

Once more, with feeling...

Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”Adv Exp Med Biol. 2017 ; 996: 295–309. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56017-5_25.

From the Abstract:

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. However the use of UBI to treat septicemia cannot be solely due to UV-mediated killing of bacteria in the blood-stream, as only 5–7% of blood volume needs to be treated with UV to produce the optimum benefit.

A worthwhile and thought provoking journal article. The concept is to damage some of the viruus in the blood stream, the body will react to the damaged virus and create antibodies. The immune system will take care of the rest of the damaged cells or they will be repaired.

If so, this technique could make vaccines as we know them obsolete, and end the strife over adjuvants, squalene, and preservatives (like Thimoserol) which can cause severe side effects, because those won't be necessary.

Aside from that, any novel virus, if this works, could be treated this way by helping the body develop its own immune response specifically for that virus. No double blind tests, no FDA hoops, no vaccine, just straight to treatment.

[PeteS in CA]

Looks like Goog Tube felt some heat and saw the light. The Aytu video is available.


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