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This totally contradicts another study [1]. They found that the virus is "viable and infectious in aerosols for hours and on surfaces up to days (depending on t
by xenonite 7y ago
This totally contradicts another study [1]. They found that the virus is "viable and infectious in aerosols for hours and on surfaces up to days (depending on the inoculum shed)."
[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
- HSO 7y agothat's only a letter not a paper. and they only measured the quantity, not whether the viruses they found after x hours could actually still replicate.
- xenonite 7y agoThank you for the hint (in the reference [1], the measurement done as in [2], which states "Collected aerosols were analysed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and by virus titration"), although I then don't get why the paper [1] writes that the viruses are "infectious". [1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 [2] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.38.20590 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...