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SARS-CoV-2: A Simple, Cheap, Effective and Pollution-free Irradiation-based Prevention and Correction Approach

Vásquez Edwin Fernando

Abstract


Global cases for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) as for the last World Health Organization Situation Report comprises 2,160207 total people infected and reports 146,088 deaths at an steady daily rate of around 80,000 of cases and 6,000 deaths, situation which has continued for the last month with no observed tendency to decrease. At the national level, situations are particular and the virus has dispersed to span nation-wide proportions. Quarantine, proper hand-washing, usage of masks and social distancing has proven ineffective to prevent SARS-CoV-2 dispersal around the world and locally. Here, it is proposed an Irradiation-Based Prevention and Correction (IPC) measure which alone could decrease 95–99% of viral charge on air and on the streets of a territory of any size which can be coupled to previous local measures. IPC has the potential to become a standard measure for airborne pandemic agents and its implementation should be assessed to prevent more lives to be lost to the SARS-CoV-2 virus: 1. Home-confinement of the population of a given territory for 3–5 days depending on the weather and 2. 01 Day allowance for supply acquisition. The cycle be repeated at least three times and/ or as long as close territories report steady rates of increasing cases and deaths. Air should be monitored for SARS-CoV-2 particles during an IPC measure. IPC then, is in theory Simple, Cheap, Effective and Pollution-free.


Keywords


SARS-CoV-2, IPC, Death rate, Enzyme 2 (ACE2), Hemagglutinin-esterase (HE), WHO, pandemic threats, Pollution-free

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