  Zare and co-workers have recently claimed that hydrogen peroxide is
spontaneously generated on the air-water interface of sprayed microdroplets,
i.e., that H2O2 forms without an external energy source or co-reactant or
catalyst. Specifically, they find that the H2O2(aq) concentration in sprayed
microdroplets increases by a factor of 3.5 (or 2.5) as the spray chamber's
relative humidity (RH) is changed from 15% to 50% (or from 15% to 95%).
Building on these results, they imply causation for the seasonality of viral
infections arising from the RH-dependent H2O2 generation in environmental
microdroplets. Here, we present an alternative explanation for their
observations.
