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I just want to stress this again! I see so many people claiming that you need to quarantine your packages for X days to be safe - this does not seem to be what
by altarius 7y ago
I just want to stress this again!
I see so many people claiming that you need to quarantine your packages for X days to be safe - this does not seem to be what the study says!
That doesn't seem to be true unless the number of particles they spread on the surfaces is representative of someone handling a package with contaminated hands.
Viral particles seem to decay exponentially with a specific half-life (the environment just seems to break them down/inactivate and it's essentially a random process). So if you start with many more viral particles than this study, then more infectious viral particles will be on the surface after a set amount of time. Viruses do not seem to be like cells with a specific "life-time".
This study essentially shows that this virus behaves a lot like SARS-CoV-1 but spreads more aggressively - it must be something other than longer viability on surfaces/aerosols.