Wednesday, April 20, 2022

UV Lamps Bought to Curb COVID-19 Damaged Faculty and students Eyes at a State University of New York

Nobody is safe from human follies not even academia! Professors can be very naive fools too! 😄

"At the start of the spring semester, the State University of New York at Geneseo purchased 17 ultraviolet lamps to stop the spread of COVID-19. But the lamps damaged the eyes of eight professors and an unknown number of students ...
Kathy Mapes, associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo, said she thought the lamp was a space heater. ..
Mapes said she was diagnosed with UV keratitis. The condition is caused by unprotected exposure to ultraviolet rays. She was told that the tissue covering her cornea was damaged.
The State Labor Department has found that the lamps were not properly installed in five classrooms. In addition, the report faulted Geneseo for not posting warnings in all the rooms with the lamps. ..."

Lamps Bought to Curb COVID-19 Damaged Faculty Eyes

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