{"id":238323,"date":"2020-04-25T19:28:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238323"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:12:37","slug":"sunlight-destroys-coronavirus-quickly-say-us-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/sunlight-destroys-coronavirus-quickly-say-us-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, say US scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Another reason not to stay inside!<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-04-sunlight-coronavirus-quickly-scientists.html?fbclid=IwAR31j3cixzV-qZBHpma1kKFhIDB92ZQjmamggklZWG7djgdHxuL-f9qRllE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-04-sunlight-coronavirus-quickly-scientists.html?fbclid=IwAR31j3cixzV-qZBHpma1kKFhIDB92ZQjmamggklZWG7djgdHxuL-f9qRllE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another reason not to stay inside! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":238324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}