Cool. And now that it exists, they will be increasingly quick to adapt it to the next pandemic. There are other coronaviruses out there.
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These will never get deployed because the cost of COVID is a shared cost between too many parties and none of them will benefit from, and therefore buy, these devices.
We need strict air quality regulations to make developments like these plausible for real world use.
I imagine it's worth it in healthcare contexts, but depending on cost it might be worth it for businesses too. If you run the risk of severe disruptions to critical services, the argument for installing these in your building isn't hard to make.
Something like this would really disrupt my company's "I need you in the office every day" policy.
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Still better than nothing. The virus is still around, some places more than others
As the article explains the approach is applicable to other air-born pathogens
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