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Tests indicate coronavirus can survive in the air?

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
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 This is alarming. I guess if your walking in a crowd and it's windy and someone sneezes then your at risk.
                                                           serf
          Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for 42 multiple hours and on surfaces up to days," reads the study's abstract.

The test results suggest that humans could be infected by the disease simply carried through the air or on a solid surface, even if direct contact with an infected person does not occur. That finding, if accepted, would come in stark contrast to previous media reports that suggested the virus was not easily transmittable outside of direct human contact.

 


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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    Stay outside Sunshine is a virus enemy :)
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    Luckily, Ms. WT and I are retired and don’t have to go to work.  We’re cutting down on any unnecessary outings.  A little shopping as needed but otherwise, staying home and watching TV.  We’re going to maintain this for the next month.  We figure by then it’ll either get a lot worse or will improve.  We’ll reevaluate at that time.
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    WearyTraveler said:
    Luckily, Ms. WT and I are retired and don’t have to go to work.  We’re cutting down on any unnecessary outings.  A little shopping as needed but otherwise, staying home and watching TV.  We’re going to maintain this for the next month.  We figure by then it’ll either get a lot worse or will improve.  We’ll reevaluate at that time.
      +1 only thing is,, there is NOTHING on tv, if it weren't for the old movie chanell we would go crazy, I think I have every empty shell in the house reloaded, regripped all my golf clubs, just staring out the window now waiting on spring and warm weather...
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    mogley98 said:
    Stay outside Sunshine is a virus enemy :)
      Just don't be in a crowd with the sunshine outside. A mountain man would have no problem.
                                            serf

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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    Yawn
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,671 ✭✭✭✭
    serf said:
     This is alarming. I guess if your walking in a crowd and it's windy and someone sneezes then your at risk.
                                                               serf
              Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for 42 multiple hours and on surfaces up to days," reads the study's abstract.

    The test results suggest that humans could be infected by the disease simply carried through the air or on a solid surface, even if direct contact with an infected person does not occur. That finding, if accepted, would come in stark contrast to previous media reports that suggested the virus was not easily transmittable outside of direct human contact.

     

    Can't all corona viruses survive in this manner to some extent? If not why do we still have the common cold and various flus? Bob

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