The Dolphins recently became the first NFL franchise to "install a series of new air purification devices throughout their team headquarters designed to wipe out the coronavirus before it lands on a surface or ends up in their players' lungs," according to Adam Beasley of the MIAMI HERALD. To get rid of the coronavirus, the team is "using one of the safest -- and most natural -- disinfectants on the planet: ultraviolet rays." Over the coming weeks and months, a company called Healthe Lighting -- which includes Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross among its investors -- "will retrofit the team's facility with a series of UV-C lights and filters that the business says can eliminate virtually all of the coronavirus in the environment." Healthe Founder and Chief Technology Officer Fred Maxik said, "The systems that we're deploying are systems that are cleaning in real time and cleaning constantly. We reduce that (pathogen) load that's in that space to the maximum to we can." Researchers said that Healthe's multi-level system is "designed to inactivate the virus in the air, on players' lockers and even on their uniforms." Beasley reported Healthe already has begun "installing a series of ceiling devices inside the Dolphins' locker room called troffers, featuring HEPA-Carbon activated filtration with UV sanitization." In all, 40 of these devices "will go up around the building" (MIAMI HERALD, 8/2).
