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SARS-COV-2, COVID-19 AND RADIATION: HISTORY, RESULTS AND PROSPECTS

Oksengendler B.L.¹, Turayeva N.N. ², Ashirmetov A.Kh. ³ Suleymanov S.Kh.¹, Iskandarova F.A.⁴

¹ Institute of Materials Science NPO "Physics-the Sun" Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 100084, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Yunusabad district, 2B Chingiz Aitmatov str .
² St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Webster University, 470 East Lockwood Avenue
³ National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 100066, Tashkent, Shaykhon-tokhur district, Batyr Zakirov str., 6.
⁴Nanotechnology Development Center at the M.Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan , 4 Universitetskaya str., Tashkent, 100174, Uzbekistan

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Abstract. The history of mankind demonstrates that epidemics and pandemics have shaken civilization very systematically, at all times. This provoked a response from people to put scientific redoubts in the fight against viruses and bacteria, which (as it turned out) were the sources of diseases. At the turn of 2019-2020, humanity was invaded by a new killer, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (in early China, Wuhan, and then around the world), which could overcome the barrier between animals and humans and cause COVID-19, accompanied by a combination of unusual syndromes and severe course (such as unusual pneumonia), up to to the point of lethal. Since the beginning of the disease to the present, the pandemic has affected more than 704 million people, leading to 7 million deaths, and more than 22 million people are currently suffering from one of the variants of the mutated SARS. At the initial stage of the fight against this virus, it turned out that science and medicine (pharmacology, immunology, epidemiology), in the first months, demonstrated their inconclusiveness, and this caused specialists from various sciences, theorists and practitioners to be involved in the fight against the epidemic. Among them were physicists (specialists in radiation exposure) and physicians (radiobiologists). They suggested using the effect of small doses of X-rays to affect the virus in vivo. In the articles that appeared (Tashkent 2020, March [1] et seq.) Theoretically, a method was developed for the destruction of viral RNA using low-dose subsurface X-ray irradiation, which caused Auger cascades in phosphorus atoms embedded in the RNA. Western experimental doctors (2020, April [2] et seq.) independently revealed the really great efficiency of this method of struggle. In the following years, both theory and treatment methods were developed in a large number of details, which affected various types of com modeling. In general, these works have made a significant contribution to radiation medicine.

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DOI: http://uzpolymerjournal.com/articles/article.php?id=250103

*Corresponding author: Iskandarova F.A., Nanotechnology Development Center at the M.Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan , 4 Universitetskaya str., Tashkent, 100174, Uzbekistan.

Citation: Oksengendler B.L., Turayeva N.N. , Ashirmetov A.Kh. Suleymanov S.Kh., Iskandarova F.A., SARS-COV-2, COVID-19 AND RADIATION: HISTORY, RESULTS AND PROSPECTS. Uzbekistan Journal of Polymers, Vol. 4(1) 2025: pp.31-38. DOI: http://uzpolymerjournal.com/articles/article.php?id=250103

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