From: slider@atashram.com

Coronavirus can remain infectious in droplets in the air for hours and on
some surfaces up to three days, according to a new study.

The virus spreads between people who are in close contact with one another through respiratory droplets, much like the common cold or flu, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/18/heres-how-long-coronavirus-can-live-surfaces-and-air-study/2863287001/

The CDC has said there is likely very low risk of transmission of COVID-19
from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks "because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces."

But a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday
found that viable virus could be detected up to three hours later in the
air, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two
to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

“We’re not by any way saying there is aerosolized transmission of the virus,” but this work shows that the virus stays viable for long periods
in those conditions, so it’s theoretically possible, study leader Neeltje
van Doremalen at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
told the Associated Press.

Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Princeton and UCLA used a device to dispense an
aerosol that mimicked the microscopic droplets created when an infected
person coughs or sneezes.

The virus was deposited onto surfaces including plastic, stainless steel, cardboard and copper to represent a variety of household and hospital
settings. Over time the amount of viable virus on these surfaces decreased sharply.

Experts say this doesn't necessarily mean you need to be worried about coronavirus lingering on boxes delivered by Amazon or on your takeout food
bag.

"The paper that recently published, these are under ideal sort of
experimental situations," said Joseph Vinetz, a professor of medicine at
Yale University and infectious disease researcher who was not affiliated
with the study. "If somebody were to, say, cough ... on a box or on a
letter, the chances of that remaining viable for the period of time it's
in transit seems extremely unlikely."

### - probably the opposite is the truth here, cv obviously being highly infectious + lingering on surfaces for a very long time, and with china
likely shipping this crap all over the planet long before it was even
detected? being closely related to sars (first cousins) it's like a
genetically weaker version of it?

so what the hell happened then to a sars vaccine which should have been developed by now??

maybe they couldn't make one? sars being reputed (at one point) to have actually escaped from a lab!

one good bit of news being news of an antibody-test being developed here, something which can tell ya if you've had the virus or not, meaning those
peeps wont then have to continue remaining in isolation and can get back
to work...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ0FnXaQItE

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