From the local CBS news this evening - Nordstroms is opening but will not accept cash. Wish there was one near here and I’d sure the pants off them for not accepting legal tender. Any clothing tried on will not be put back on the rack for 48 hours. Apparently, their clothing is magical since the virus lives on most things for 3+ days.
Macy’s clothing is even more magical so they’re putting it back in 24 hours.
You're getting called out for that ("the virus lives on most things for 3+ days").
"Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1"
- see https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
“Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions”
-see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666524720300033?via%3Dihub
In the last study, they tested using cloth. There was no virus titer detected after two days and in two time periods less than two days, only one of the triplicate reactions was positive in the TCID50 assays, suggesting it may be less than two days for the virus titer to be detectable. These were in highly controlled laboratory conditions.