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COVID-19
Protocols and Policies:
1. You can
cancel your appointment anytime with no penalty if you feel sick, if you have a
temperature, or if you were exposed to someone that was sick. Since last minute
cancellations prevent anyone from taking your time slot, please let me know as
possible in case someone is on the waiting list.
2. I'll
be wearing a mask at all times, and I ask that you please put on your mask
before you enter the spa.
3. I'll be
disinfecting doorknobs, chairs, counters, etc. between
appointments, as well as the bathroom key every time it's touched.
4. A HEPA
air purifier will be running all day in the massage room near the head of the
table. This filter reduces up to 99.97% of dust, pollen, mold spores, and
allergens as small as .3 microns from the air. The UV C light inside the air
purifier helps kill airborne viruses such as Influenza, staph, and rhinovirus.
5. Please wash
your hands (or use the hand sanitizer in the room) before you get on the table.
6. I will
no longer be hugging after appointments. This change hurts me more than it
hurts you. As you know, I'm a hugger. :(
7. I've extending the time between massage
appointments from 30 min. to 45 min. to give me even more time to sanitize
before and after. This will reduce how many appointments can be scheduled so
make sure you book in advance to get the time you want!
8. In between
appointments the entire room will be treated with a UV C light to disinfect all
the surfaces.
9. If you
have any requests for further protections please feel free to ask. I'm here to
help you feel better and have peace of mind.
I’m
looking forward to your visit!
-Heather
Karr Johnson, CMT
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How UV light kills microbes:
Viruses
don’t reproduce on their own, but they do have genetic material, either DNA or
RNA. They reproduce by attaching to cells and injecting their DNA. Some viruses
burst out of the infected cell, while others merge into the infected cell,
reproducing every time that cell divides.
If you’ve
ever gotten a sunburn, you’ve had a taste of how UV light kills viruses: UV
light can damage DNA. A DNA molecule is made of two strands bound together by
four bases, adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). These
bases are like an alphabet, and their sequence forms instructions for cells to
reproduce.
UV light
can cause thymine bases to fuse together, scrambling the DNA sequence and
essentially throwing a wrench into the machinery. Since the DNA sequence is no
longer correct, it can no longer replicate properly. This is how UV light
annihilates viruses, by destroying their ability to reproduce.
Can UV
light kill COVID-19?
COVID-19 is
a new breed, and as such there is a dearth of studies on its resistance to UV.
We can look to previous coronaviruses, such as SARS and MERS, for insight.
Studies on both SARS and MERS both shows that UV light could inactivate the
viruses, so it’s not unreasonable to expect that it will have a similar effect
on COVID-19.
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