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cord-295113-2c4o4hd6	Enwemeka, Chukuka Samuel	Light as a potential treatment for pandemic coronavirus infections: A perspective	2020-05-01		.txt	text/plain	4443	203	40	This paper cites several studies showing that phototherapy has immense potential to reduce the impact of coronavirus diseases, and offers suggested ways that the healthcare industry can integrate modern light technologies in the fight against COVID-19 and other infections. Furthermore, as detailed below, laboratory experiments show that red and near infrared light, with wavelengths approximately in the range of 600 -700 nm and 700 -1000 nm respectively, have the potential to reduce lung J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Journal Pre-proof inflammation and fibrosis, and hence acute respiratory disorder syndrome, a major cause of death in every coronavirus pandemic, including the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. Antimicrobial blue light may serve another useful purpose in reducing the COVID-19 pandemic; it could be used effectively to sanitize equipment, tools, hospital facilities, emergency care vehicles, homes, and the general environment as pilot studies have shown [54] [55] [56] .	./cache/cord-295113-2c4o4hd6.txt	./txt/cord-295113-2c4o4hd6.txt