I was president of the IET for 2016-17, and have been asked by government to gather practical and innovative ideas from our Engineering communities. So, please enter any ideas you might have in this thread that might help address and mitigate the Covid-19 crisis. Ideas might include digital tracking / monitoring through therapy equipment and beyond. Even ideas outside your usual expertise domain will be welcome. Now’s the time for Engineering to show we can change the world!
I sense we are mostly in the same place, that Ozone immersion and / or UV exposure would probably sterilize C-19. There seems reasonable evidence that this could work. Whether the method could in the end achieve a useful cost / benefit is TBD - need more expert evaluation to get to specifics. I - we can offer more engineering support, what is needed now ( as already pointed out) is the virology specialism to look at the ideas and make some adjudication.
We have in this forum discussed applications in the re-use of PPE, for cleaning of ambulances. Maybe there could be more widespread use of the methods - perhaps in the future post-pandemic there has to be a greater use to reduce virus propagation?
I feel - and this has been mentioned - we need to engage the specialist virology practitioners, prefrerably within the domain of the main target users - NHS, who can give the methods due consideration and take forward - or not - as appropriate.
I sense we are mostly in the same place, that Ozone immersion and / or UV exposure would probably sterilize C-19. There seems reasonable evidence that this could work. Whether the method could in the end achieve a useful cost / benefit is TBD - need more expert evaluation to get to specifics. I - we can offer more engineering support, what is needed now ( as already pointed out) is the virology specialism to look at the ideas and make some adjudication.
We have in this forum discussed applications in the re-use of PPE, for cleaning of ambulances. Maybe there could be more widespread use of the methods - perhaps in the future post-pandemic there has to be a greater use to reduce virus propagation?
I feel - and this has been mentioned - we need to engage the specialist virology practitioners, prefrerably within the domain of the main target users - NHS, who can give the methods due consideration and take forward - or not - as appropriate.
