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Touching something someone else just touched after wiping their cough spray off their lips is definitely a risk booster.

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• sitkack 7y ago
  24 hrs on cardboard, up to 72 hrs on plastic/stainless steel (smooth surfaces).
  • wool_gather 7y ago
    Caveat: that's our best understanding at this time; that study hasn't been reproduced as far as I've seen.
    • sitkack 7y ago
      I would take these as minimums, still wipe down outside material with bleach/windex/soap water.
      • wool_gather 7y ago
        Exactly, yes. Although, does the amount of ammonia in window cleaner actually do anything useful?
        • sitkack 7y ago
          It is the degreaser that makes the outside of the virus fall apart.
  • lorenzhs 7y ago
    in a lab setting. Being able to infect a cell line in a lab is rather different from being able to infect a person. German public broadcaster NDR has a good podcast with an actual virologist, the transcript (in German, deepl.com should do the trick) is at https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/14-Coronavirus-Update-Vorsicht-vor-Vereinfachungen,podcastcoronavirus132.html https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/14-Coronavirus-Update-Vo...
• oiasdjfoiasd 7y ago
  gloves, mask, goggles. done.