After interest surged in the pandemic, companies developing far UV-C decontamination technology face a long road to market
Examples of high-priority "prototype" pathogens (left to right): hantavirus, yellow fever virus, Nipah virus, picornavirus, and Chikungunya. Photo credits: NIAID / Flickr
The development of COVID vaccines took the urgency out of this work, but far UV-C is still seen as a promising technology for pandemic readiness and preventing other infections, such as influenza, tuberculosis and hospital-acquired infections.
The technology itself is mature, but the market is not. Companies hoping to commercialise far UV-C systems face a range of barriers, from hesitancy in the healthcare sector to manufacturing costs that make mass deployment unattractive.
“Healthcare should be the…
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