Despite rules that lock down people in their homes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) reported on 5 January that research showed beneficial effects of sunlight on slowing down the spread of COVID.
The article, “Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates” was written by five environmental scientists – two from Harvard, two from the University of California, and one from the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
One of the authors, Jonathan Proctor from Harvard’s Data Science Initiative, stated,
“We find that ultraviolet (UV) radiation has a statistically significant effect on daily COVID-19 growth rates… Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that UV radiation alters COVID-19 transmission rates by more rapidly deactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus residing on surfaces or in aerosol form, as suggested by recent laboratory studies.”
The study confirms that related strains of coronavirus and influenza are inactivated by UV radiation. And a recent laboratory study suggests a similar role whereby UV of a spectral distribution to sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces.
Lockdowns Made People Sicker
Earlier studies have shown the beneficial effects of being outside in the sun during the COVID War.
On 4 September, the American Journal of Infection Control published an article that concluded, “Our study demonstrated the effectiveness of 222-nm UVC irradiation on viable SARS-CoV-2. Our results suggest that this technology could be used for infection prevention and control against COVID-19.”
On 5 June, a study was published by the scientific journal Photochemistry and Photobiology in which experienced researchers concluded that exposure to sunlight helps to inactivate COVID-19. The researchers harshly criticized the political pressure that has frightened citizens into staying indoors:
“Forcing people to remain indoors may have increased (or assured) contagion of COVID‐19 among same household dwellers and among patients and personnel inside the same hospital or geriatric facilities. In contrast, healthy people outdoors receiving sunlight could have been exposed to lower viral dose with more chances for mounting an efficient immune response. This argument supports considering the results of two opposed containment approaches to deal with the COVID‐19 crisis.”
TRENDPOST: As for locking people down, as we have continually reported, this past May, Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York State’s lockdown czar, had said, “Overwhelmingly, the people were at home… We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home.”
Despite the overt failure of these lockdown laws, they persist, and, in many nations, those protesting them are arrested and fined for disobeying these draconian, unscientifically-based rules.
