Posted on 04/23/2020 9:15:01 PM PDT by bitt
Homeland Security official: 'I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes, isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that's with no manipulation, no rubbing'
New research from the Department of Homeland Security shows sunlight and humidity kill coronavirus quickly, the White House Coronavirus Task Force announced Thursday.
"Increasing the temperature and humidity of potentially-contaminated indoor spaces appears to reduce the stability of the virus," William N. Bryan, acting under secretary for Science and Technology for the Department of Homeland Security, said at the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.
Bryan said DHS testing showed there was a "very significant difference" when the coronavirus is exposed to UV rays, and "extra care may be warranted or dry environments that do not have exposure to solar light."
DHS is testing disinfectants including bleach and rubbing alcohol, on the coronavirus in saliva and respiratory fluids, Bryan said.
"I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes, isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that's with no manipulation, no rubbing," he said.
Bryan said research showed that the coronavirus dies the quickest in the presence of direct sunlight.
"We've identified that heat and humidity is a weakness in that chain," he said. "We've identified that sunlight, solar light, UV rays, is a weakness in that chain. That doesn't take away the other activities, the White House guidelines, the guidance from the CDC and others on the actions and the steps that people need to take to protect themselves. This is just another tool in our toolbox, another weapon in the fight that we can add to it. And we know that summer-like conditions are going to create an environment where the transmission can be decreased, and that's an opportunity for us to get ahead."
However, Bryan cautioned that warmer temperatures, like those in virus hotspots Florida and New Orleans, won't stop the infection spread when social distancing and other health guidelines are not followed.
"It would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel that the summer is just going to totally kill the virus and that it's a free-for-all and that people can ignore those guidelines, that is not the case," he said. "We have an opportunity though, to get ahead with what we know now, and factor that into the decision-making for what opens and what doesn't."
To read the DHS research on the half-life of the coronavirus, click the pdf below:
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I hope so.
Thanks for posting!!
Great. It gets very hot here during Summer, but our humidity levels hover around 1 to 10 percent.
like it’s doing in the Philippines where it’s hot and sunny?
hot.
Well, I’m in Alabama, so we got that humidity sucker nailed to the floor. It’s the sunlight part of it that sends us scurrying for a shade tree and a cold beer. *chuckle*
Soooo, global warming is a good thing?
Trump was right. He predicted this on 19th February “I think it’s going to work out fine. I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus.”
He will be proved correct. Now everyone get out and back to work
A large Accweather study alreay showed this they now know from a meta study that the COVID-19 virus is like others in that it will diminish when hotter see Acuuweather study
Geez what a fucking surprise
The flu (virus infections) dying down in the Spring/Summer is more a factor of human behavior...school is out, people outside the house more, etc., getting the flu from touching something outside that could be “sterilized” by the sun is a very low probably.
So, the wretched northeast and northwest with no sunlight and high humidity are screwed?
I can’t speak for the northwest but here in my northeast it is hot, humid and sunny in the summers. I don’t know where you get no sunlight from.
Here in Washington state we are lucky to break 80 degrees but our humidity is often 80 as well.
CDC? FDA? NIH? Nope. Not one of them who are supposed to know these things made this announcement.
Homeland Security?
I’m not making fun of your tag line (see below). Only making fun of the way I misread it after rising here to get going early and saying to myself, “What?” Your tagline is good.
On summer and COVID-19, I posted a few comments about a couple of months ago after reading some earlier studies. Warm weather and sunlight should help for those who continue to avoid crowds, keep their distance a little and get out in the sunlight. Avoid sunburn. People with possible skin cancer lesions should be extra careful about that and cover up. They’ll still get some rays that will kill viruses.
Because of its contagiousness, it can continue to spread in crowded buildings. Maybe people who work day shifts in those conditions can get out for a sun break within a couple of hours either way of solar noon (1 pm for most of us in summer).
Please understand .... nobody want to kill the virus if there is one chance in Hades that one will believe OrangeMan Bad
UV kills the virus... plain and simple.
Wearing a mask creates a very humid environment in front of my face. My glasses steam up immediately.
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