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To: jeffc

Covid19 lasts:

About a day on cardboard

Lasts 2-3 days on steel and plastic (13,16 hour half lives respectively)

lasts only 4 hours on copper

lasts 3 hours floating around in air (tested at room temp and 40% humidity)

Lasts longer in cold air and dry air.

Other papers show that half life drops dramatically in air with higher absolute (not relative) humidity. So Florida might have slower spread?

Nosocomial (I had to look it up) refers to an infection acquired in a hospital or other health care facility.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0fYT5dzs4-9s2PcTKT7jOHhfUWQO0XYTRWMc85UgnPazmVLi8dXbameIY


77 posted on 03/15/2020 4:22:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election, more or less, is an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
>> About a day on cardboard <<

Does this mean it can be spread via mail or other delivery services?
78 posted on 03/15/2020 5:11:18 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
IDK. We haven't had any rain in North Central Florida in a while - summer is the rainy season. We are supposed to get showers sometime Monday. I hope so.

The grass and tree pollen is killing me. My dark cherry maroon Sorento is covered in yellow pollen. Rinsing it off doesn't work. I live in a forest surrounded by oak trees.

I religiously wash my hands and use Lysol spray on everything. I'm constantly wiping down the kitchen and bathrooms.

OTOH, I just got back from a Walmart Super Center: It wasn't crowded - normal amount of shoppers, if it was a weekday morning. They don't have much - they're down to the bare bones, but I did get some milk and 4 gallons of spring water, but the TP and cleaning sections is pretty much wiped out, except for laundry detergent type stuff.

It's spring break for the schools here so IDK what trying to shop on weekdays during work hours will be like (I'm retired), but I'll give it a go in a few days. Hopefully, they'll get replenished...

=:-)

82 posted on 03/15/2020 6:21:34 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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