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
- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC)
- Hazard Awareness & Characterization Technology Center (HA-TC)
- Probabilistic Analysis of National Threats, Hazards, and Risks (PANTHR) Program
- Fact sheet: Probabilistic Analysis for National Threats Hazards and Risks (PANTHR)
- Fact sheet: PANTHR COVID-19
- Fact Sheet: Predicting the Decay of SARS-CoV-2 In Airborne Particles
- Fact sheet: SARS-CoV-2 Indoor Environmental Stability Predictive Model
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)
(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)