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Citation: Golovkine GR, Roberts AW, Cooper C, Riano S, DiCiccio AM, Worthington DL, et al. (2021) Practical considerations for Ultraviolet-C radiation mediated decontamination of N95 respirator against SARS-CoV-2 virus. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258336. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258336

Editor: Ginny Moore, Public Health England, UNITED KINGDOM

Received: January 21, 2021; Accepted: August 23, 2021; Published: October 12, 2021

Copyright: © 2021 Golovkine et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Data Availability: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files.

Funding: This work was funded by Fast Grants (part of Emergent Ventures at George Mason University) to SAS. AWR is an Open Philanthropy Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Authors CC, SR, AMD, DLW and JPC are employees of Verily Life Sciences. Authors JZ, YG, LZ are employees of Bolb, Inc. Author MK is President at Arkesso, LLC. The funders provided support in the form of salaries for authors CC, SR, AMD, DLW, JPC, JZ, YG, LZ, MK and support in the form of work hours and equipment for the authors to execute and collaborate in the study design, data collection and analysis. The funders permitted authors to proceed with the decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing interests: Authors CC, SR, AMD, DLW and JPC are employees of Verily Life Sciences, the company that designed and built the UV-C device. Authors JZ, YG, LZ are employees of Bolb, Inc, the company that created the LEDs used in the study. Author MK is President at Arkesso LLC, a contracted advisor to Bolb, Inc. Verily Life Sciences and Arkesso, LLC do not claim any patents or commercial products related to the study subject. Bolb, Inc. does not claim any patents on the study subject but does have the following patents covering the SMD6060 LEDs used in the study: - Lattice-constant formatted epitaxial template for light emitting devices and a method for making the same, US9,472,716. - Light emitter with a conductive transparent p-type layer structure, US9,293,648. - Light emitter with a conductive transparent p-type layer structure, US9,553,232. - Ultraviolet light-emitting device with a heavily doped strain-management interlayer, US9,680,056. - Ultraviolet light device, US9, 715,058. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.