Tag: surface sampling

#COVID19 Journal Club: “Air and Environmental Contamination Caused by COVID-19 Patients: a Multi-Center Study”

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Coronavirus
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Very nice and cleanly done study here, “Air and Environmental Contamination Caused by COVID-19 Patients: a Multi-Center Study” is a very straightforward look at the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in a healthcare setting… without aerosol generating procedures being part of the pictures.  They looked at the air (all negative) and a bunch of surfaces (27% positive …

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: Detection of Air and Surface Contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in Hospital Rooms of Infected Patients

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Coronavirus
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(h/t to Patrick Horve for this article) Definitely seeing a theme here these days.  People are swabbing hospitals and finding the SARS-CoV-2 virus pretty much all over the place.  This article “Detection of Air and Surface Contamination by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Hospital Rooms of Infected Patients” fits perfectly in that …