Yahoo News April 2020
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that
the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high
humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from
controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true.
A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use only and
obtained by Yahoo News, offers hope that summertime may offer conditions
less hospitable for the virus, though experts caution it will by no
means eliminate, or even necessarily decrease, new cases of COVID-19,
the disease caused by the coronavirus. The results, however, do add an
important piece of knowledge that the White House's science advisers
have been seeking as they scramble to respond to the spreading pandemic.
The study found that the risk of "transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight" and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. "Sunlight destroys the virus quickly," reads the briefing.
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