The virus doesn’t like sunlight….

The Washington Post has apiece out that reports on several studies that seem to confirm the virus will have a rough time this summer…

Something some of have come to believe if you think about the flu and common cold, which are viruses…

The ultra violet part of sunshine by itself kills off the virus and high humidity along with the ultra violet light kills of the virus even faster…

Comm0n sense would follow that being at the beach, and on the the summer hot and humid days?

The virus would have a hard way to go….

But I’m no scientist expert…

This stuff is from them…

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Most pathogenic microbes are highly vulnerable to the ultraviolet light in the sun’s electromagnetic spectrum. Some medical facilities are decontaminating protective masks using ultraviolet light so they can be reused.

The DHS experiment also tested how the virus decays when exposed to sunlight while airborne, Andrew and Jason report.

“When the airborne virus at temperatures between 70 and 75 degrees is exposed to sunlight, its half-life decreases from around 60 minutes before exposure to 1.5 minutes after,” they write.

William Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at DHS, summarized it this way: “Within the conditions we’ve tested to date, the virus in droplets of saliva survives best in indoors and dry conditions. … The virus dies quickest in the presence of direct sunlight.”

Several other studies suggest sunlight kills the coronavirus effectively.

• MIT researchers found 90 percent of the coronavirus transmissions so far have occurred within 37 to 63 degrees and higher humidity. The virus spread more slowly in areas outside these temperature and humidity zones.
• Ultraviolet light was strongly associated with lower covid-19 growth rates, according to researchers at the University of Connecticut. Their paper, published last week, says the virus probably will “decrease temporarily during summer, rebound by autumn and peak next winter.”
• Columbia University researchers found that for two other types of coronaviruses, low levels of ultraviolet light in public locations would kill 90 percent of the virus in eight minutes, 95 percent in 11 minutes and 99 percent in 16 minutes. “As all human coronaviruses have similar genomic size, a key determinant of radiation sensitivity, it is realistic to expect that far-UVC light will show comparable inactivation efficiency against other human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2,” they wrote….

(There is a BUT?…On this though)