Disposing COVID-19 biowaste not limited to incineration
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
An environmental scientist, who led medical waste treatment during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, says that COVID-19 is one of the "easiest pathogens to destroy" and hospitals need not resort to environmentally unfriendly incineration to dispose of biomedical waste piling up from treating those infected with the virus.