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Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions
- distant_hat 6y agoGood thing most of us do not live in a lab.
- ReptileMan 6y agoOr lick our phones.
- xuhu 6y agoI bought one bag of chips in 2020, versus 100 bags last year. It's because I check my phone while I'm in the house.
- brobdingnagians 6y agoOr in lightless caves
- mckirk 6y agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/669/ https://xkcd.com/669/
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- jonatron 6y agoCovid = Coronavirus disease Covid virus = Coronavirus disease virus
- bla3 6y agoCovid vidis = disease triggered by the covid virus Quo vadis = disease triggered by the quo varus
- raverbashing 6y agoExactly. "In lab conditions". No light, fixed temperature and humidity. That being said, do clean your phones.
- hetspookjee 6y agoPerhaps a silly question, but how do you prefer to clean your phone? I was thinking that a nice UV light station would be the lowest effort cleaning solution, and less irritating than rubbing it with an alcohol sheet everytime I get home.
- Simon_says 6y agoWash with soap and water anytime you wash your hands.
- dogma1138 6y agoThat is if your phone is IP rated.
- Simon_says 6y agoYea, goes without saying -- or if you have a waterproof case. But if you don't have either of those, you shouldn't be using your phone in a non-sterile environment.
- m4rtink 6y agoI wonder about the built in cameras - would they be damaged by the close by concentrated UV source or not ?
- dogma1138 6y agoCameras have UV and IR filters usually I would be more worried about the screen if it’s an OLED as UV can degrade the organic molecules in the screen. It might also damage the color filters in LCD screens but I doubt any consumer grade UV lamp can easily reach those levels. In general I wouldn’t trust consumer UV bulbs (especially the generic Chinese ones), it’s not worth the risk you have very little way of verifying the actual frequency range and power of those bulbs so they can range from non effective at all to Chernobyl without you being able to tell. The potential risk from a “true” UV bulb and a high power at that is much greater than COVID you can easily get eye damage including blindness as well as really bad burns and potentially cancer from a high enough dose of UV. The ~400nm UV sources used for curing resins and nail polish might be your safest bet but I wouldn’t bet that these would be as effective as using sanitizers or water and soap.
- mehrdadn 6y agoFor reference, the CDC says "Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that handling food or consuming food is associated with COVID-19." [1] Similarly, the FDA has said "To date, there has not been any evidence that food, food packaging or food handling is a source or important transmission route for SARS-CoV-2 resulting in COVID-19." [2] I take this to mean that just because a virus survives on some surface around you, that doesn't mean you're likely to get infected from it. If someone's heard of a single known case of a person having gotten COVID-19 from ordinary contact with a common surface, I (and I'm sure everyone else) would be very interested in hearing about it. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/food-and-COVID-19.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/... [2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/health/food-unlikely-covid-19-transmission-scn-wellness-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/health/food-unlikely-covid-19...
- KennethPT 6y agoThis is correct. I think these kind of studies are not particularly helpful - what is relevant is transmission probability under realistic conditions.
- lumberingjack 6y agoWho the heck doesn't clean their phone everyday
- taylodl 6y agoMe. Am I in the minority? I clean my phone about as many times as I clean my steering wheel - a few times per year.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoOK, I feel unsanitary now. I've owned my car for 15 years, and I'm not sure that I've ever cleaned the steering wheel.