About the Authors

Davis T. Weaver

Contributed equally to this work with: Davis T. Weaver, Benjamin D. McElvany, Vishhvaan Gopalakrishnan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Benjamin D. McElvany

Contributed equally to this work with: Davis T. Weaver, Benjamin D. McElvany, Vishhvaan Gopalakrishnan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Vishhvaan Gopalakrishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Davis T. Weaver, Benjamin D. McElvany, Vishhvaan Gopalakrishnan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Kyle J. Card

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Dena Crozier

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Andrew Dhawan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America, Cleveland Clinic, Division of Neurology, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Mina N. Dinh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Emily Dolson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Nathan Farrokhian

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Masahiro Hitomi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Emily Ho

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Tanush Jagdish

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dana Farber Cancer Insitute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Eshan S. King

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Jennifer L. Cadnum

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Louis Stokes Cleveland VA, Cleveland, United States of America

Curtis J. Donskey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Louis Stokes Cleveland VA, Cleveland, United States of America

Nikhil Krishnan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Gleb Kuzmin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Ju Li

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Jeff Maltas

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Jinhan Mo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Julia Pelesko

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Jessica A. Scarborough

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Geoff Sedor

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Enze Tian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Gary C. An

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Sean A. Diehl

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Sean.Diehl@med.uvm.edu (SAD); scottj10@ccf.org (JGS)

Affiliation University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Jacob G. Scott

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sean.Diehl@med.uvm.edu (SAD); scottj10@ccf.org (JGS)

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

JGS, the senior author, has, subsequent to this research, led a related patent for a UV decontamination device (PCT/US2021/022771, led march 17, 2021: \Decontam-ination System"). This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, and in fact, the patent was a reaction to this work, and so therefore was entirely performed subsequently to this research. Further, beyond the fact that the patent is for a UV-C decontamination chamber, it has little to do with this research.