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cord-319555-pccqo36g	Beggs, Clive B.	Upper-room ultraviolet air disinfection might help to reduce COVID-19 transmission in buildings: a feasibility study	2020-10-13		.txt	text/plain	6202	260	52	Given that COVID-19 can be transmitted by the inhalation of aerosolised respiratory droplets containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Beggs, 2020; Miller et al., 2020; Morawska et al., 2020; Stadnytskyi et al., 2020) , and that several studies have recovered viral RNA from hospital air samples (Chia et al., 2020; Guo et al., 2020; Jiang et al., 2020; Santarpia et al., 2020) , there is reason to believe that upper-room UVGI might be effective at "killingx201D; (inactivating) SARS-CoV-2 virions in the air, thus reducing the transmission of COVID-19 in buildings and other enclosed spaces. Because no UV irradiation experiments have to date been performed on aerosols containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it was necessary when undertaking the feasibility study to make assumptions regarding an appropriate value of Z ur to use in the upper-room UVGI analysis. The results for the expected and worst-case scenarios in Table 7 , strongly suggest that upper-room UVGI, if applied correctly, should be effective at disinfecting SARS-CoV-2 virions suspended in respiratory droplets in the air.	./cache/cord-319555-pccqo36g.txt	./txt/cord-319555-pccqo36g.txt