COVID-19 has taught us a lot of things. And one of the more important lessons has been the need for thorough, fast and effective disinfecting measures.

A team of researchers from the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center for Environmental/Occupational Risk Analysis and Management set out to determine how effective commercially available chlorine dioxide (CD) gas products were in reducing COVID-19 viral loads on face masks and surfaces.  Their findings, “Virucidal Activity of Chlorine Dioxide Gas for Reduction of Coronavirus on Surfaces and PPE,” was published in February in the journal Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine.

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