Thursday, April 1, 2021
In a letter in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara, Oregon State University, University of Manchester, and ETH Zurich examines another of SARS-CoV-2’s well known characteristics — its vulnerability to sunlight. Their conclusion? It might take more than UV-B rays to explain sunlight inactivation of SARS-CoV-2.
![Sunlight streaming through trees](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_left/public/images/news/sunlight_trees.jpeg?itok=1g2pwP9V)