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Short, valuable preprint “Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions”

This is a super-short preprint… just a letter and a few tables but contains some really useful information.  The authors looked at the viability (not just viral RNA!) of SARS-CoV-2 under different conditions including various surfaces, temperatures, and with various disinfectants.

Example good news:  The virus is disinfected very readily

Example bad news:  They detected viable virus on masks on Day 7 of their tests

Worth checking out for anyone interested in these sorts of built environment parameters for SARS-CoV-2

 

 

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David Coil

David Coil is a Project Scientist in the lab of Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis. David works at the intersection between research, education, and outreach in the areas of the microbiology of the built environment, microbial ecology, and bacterial genomics. Twitter

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