Scientists Discuss Using UV Light to Fight COVID-19

Creating a virus 'killing zone' can help lower infection risk in high-risk areas, experts say

Inside Marlaina's Mediterranean Kitchen, a Seattle-area eatery, which is battling the coronavirus using UV light. Will Stone for KHN

High up, near the ceiling in the dining room of his Seattle-area restaurant, Musa Firat recently installed a “killing zone”—a place where swaths of invisible electromagnetic energy penetrate the air, ready to disarm COVID-19 and other dangerous pathogens that drift upward in tiny, airborne particles.