- A vaccine for the novel coronavirus likely won’t be ready for the public this year, but antiviral clothes could help to protect us from the virus in the meantime.
- Intelligent Fabric Technologies North America has developed a fabric treatment that is capable of deactivating SARS-CoV-2, and has proven its efficacy in a lab.
- Products with the PROTX2 AV treatment could begin rolling out this fall.
Dozens of novel coronavirus vaccines are currently in development, but the chances of anyone aside from frontline workers being inoculated this year are slim to none. In the meantime, we’re going to have to keep ourselves safe by socially distancing, wearing a mask, and avoiding large gatherings, but clever innovations could make our lives even easier. In recent days, we’ve reported on masks that could potentially kill the virus on contact. It turns out that masks aren’t the only article of clothing that could protect us from the deadly virus.
This week, Fast Company published a story about an antiviral fabric treatment that is capable of killing SARS-CoV-2.
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