Tackling COVID-19 with Light

FEB 4, 202121 MIN
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Tackling COVID-19 with Light

FEB 4, 202121 MIN

Description

<p>This podcast features OSA’s global network of student chapters deploying light technologies to hospitals in limited-resource countries to help keep their healthcare workers safe as they fight the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Leveraging a simple and economical way to decontaminate N95 respirator masks using UV-C light, our student chapter members and their advisers are tackling personal protection equipment shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic in countries including Ethiopia, Ghana, Brazil, India, and Mexico, helping hospital staff via this OSA Foundation initiative.</p><br><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>