Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, April 24th. In today's news, lawmakers are already talking about the next stimulus bill as the House passes a

$484 billion package.

Farmers are throwing away tons of food even as needy American families go hungry.

And 43 men lived in a factory for 28 days to make millions of pounds of raw materials to fight the coronavirus.

But first, the big idea.

President Trump and Vice President Pence

showcased emerging laboratory evidence at Thursday evening's

White House briefing that suggests

the spread of COVID-19 may ebb during the summer months

because this novel coronavirus does not last as long in heat and humidity.

William Bryan the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security,

detailed recent lab studies carried out by his agency at the U.S. Army's biosecurity Lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland.

The results, which have not been peer reviewed, largely match other lab studies and the suspicions

of some researchers by showing that the coronavirus like many other viruses

does not survive nearly as long when exposed to high amounts of ultraviolet

light and warm and humid conditions. The study was conducted under idealized conditions and in a controlled setting.

Brian says that in the real world,

the virus on a playground surface exposed to direct sunlight

would die quickly quickly but the virus

could survive a lot longer in shaded areas or on door handles but it's important to

be clear the weather is no panacea when it comes to this pandemic,

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