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S&T’s COVID-19 Research Team and Published Research

view our gallery In the early days of the pandemic, S&T mobilized to learn more about the virus causing COVID-19 that was devastating communities worldwide. With experience in disease and threat characterization, our experts across the Directorate were prepared to develop with real-time, real-world resources. This team is representative of S&T’s broader laboratory and internal technical capabilities to help the nation respond to a variety of natural and manmade threats. Learn more about our research team and published research that is continually helping the nation respond to this crisis.

Our Research Team

Published Research

Airborne SARS-CoV-2 is Rapidly Inactivated by Simulated Sunlight (Journal of Infectious Diseases)

Decontamination of SARS-CoV-2 Contaminated N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators (FFRs) with Moist Heat Generated by a Multicooker
Journal: Letters in Applied Microbiology
(Society for Applied Microbiology)

Increasing Temperature and Relative Humidity Accelerates Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces (American Society For Microbiology)

Simulated Sunlight Rapidly Inactivates SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces (Journal of Infectious Diseases)

The Influence of Temperature, Humidity, and Simulated Sunlight on the Infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 in Aerosols

(Aerosol Science and Technology)

SARS-CoV-2 is rapidly inactivated at high temperature (National Institute of Health)

The Stability of an Isolate of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage in Aerosols Is Similar to Three Earlier Isolates (Journal of Infectious Diseases)

 

Last Updated: 08/01/2024
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