MedCram Lecture
Mar 13
Dr. Roger Seheult
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 36: Flatten The COVID-19 Curve, Social Distancing, Hospital Capacities
Dr. Seheult explains the idea behind this concept as it relates to a busy intensive care unit as well as other COVID-19 international updates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww1nIIoqmw
from Dr. Seheult’s video, and a NOT PEER REVIEWED study:
“overall stability is very similar between HCOV-19 and SARS-COV-1. We found that viable virus could be detected in aerosols up to 3 hours post-aerosolization; up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastics and stainless steel. HCOV-19 and SARS-COV-1 exhibited similar half-lives in aerosols with median estimates around 2.7 hours. Both viruses show relatively long viability on stainless steel and polypropylene compared to copper or cardboard; the median half-life estimate for HCOV-19 is around 13 hours on steel and around 16 hours on polypropylene.”
Question: does positive flow ventilation spread virus to HCWs?