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Coronavirus can survive on skin for 9 hours:
The new coronavirus can linger on human skin much longer than flu viruses can, according to a new study from researchers in Japan.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, remained viable on samples of human skin for about 9 hours, according to the study. In contrast, a strain of the influenza A virus (IAV) remained viable on human skin for about 2 hours.
Fortunately, both viruses on skin were rapidly inactivated with hand sanitizer.
The findings underscore the importance of washing your hands or using sanitizer to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"This study shows that SARS-CoV-2 may have a higher risk of contact transmission [i.e. transmission from direct contact] than IAV because the first is much more stable on human skin [than the latter]" the authors wrote in their paper, which was published online Oct. 3 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. "These findings support the hypothesis that proper hand hygiene is important for the prevention of the spread of SARS-CoV-2."
[...] However, both viruses were inactivated on skin 15 seconds after using hand sanitizer that was 80% ethanol.
Journal Reference:
Ryohei Hirose, Hiroshi Ikegaya, Yuji Naito, et al. Survival of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus on the human skin: Importance of hand hygiene in COVID-19, Clinical Infectious Diseases (DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1517)
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @05:43AM (3 children)
The believers of God Emperor Trump are brave and get gifts sent from their God. He has been infected but you just witness his tremendous resurrection.
MAGA!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @06:50AM (2 children)
And the believers of the infidels are brave and get gifts from their God. They can just stay hidden in their mansions without stepping foot outside and witness their perpetual decadent lifestyle; so it must be for everyone else!
See 2 can play at this game, neither extreme is good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @06:59AM (1 child)
Your game doesn't pass the sniffing test.
Pissing then washing hands before shaking them is unpatriotic. The true patriots, standing back and by, can have no other means of recognizing between them at the time of God Emperor will call on them.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday October 08 2020, @02:23PM
It is only unpatriotic if you don't stand close enough to other people so that shaking your piss covered hands fails to splash them with piss. That's unpatriotic!
"We take no interest in the affairs of others" -- Kosh Naranek, ambassador to Babylon 5 from the Vorlon empire.
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Thursday October 08 2020, @08:59AM (10 children)
It seems like covid is turning out to be jolly nasty
* It is mostly harmless for reckless 18-30 age group - who then spread it like the plague
* It often spreads without symptoms
* It is just deadly enough people to completely overwhelm the health care system of any major western power
Seems like it is much worse than e.g. Spanish Influenza.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @10:02AM (4 children)
I see why you call it jolly, but your 3 points fail to demonstrate it's nasty enough.
As a proof, the "fuck you, got mine" Boomers like Runaway refuse to die quick enough and bequest their wealth to 'Zumi, so that she needs to emigrate.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday October 08 2020, @12:36PM (1 child)
Just stop with the hate speech, please.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @01:43PM
Reality beats satire [twitter.com]
Not a very good time to be a comedian when POTUS is a clown.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 08 2020, @12:57PM (1 child)
You forgot to log in, Runaway :) And while I appreciate you letting me live rent-free in your head, the place needs some serious maintenance! Entire sectors of it are uninhabitable due to the buildup of concentrated, compressed bullshit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @01:39PM
Psssst, Augean stables
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @04:53PM
The nastiest thing is, no politician and no billionaire ever gets sick with it for more than a few days, if at all. All the deadliness is reserved for nobodies.
With bats and pangolins both mammals, no wonder reptile people are in no danger at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @04:54PM
Yep, and it also makes old loser-males in their 50s stalk healthcare workers and USPS employees.
(Score: 0) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday October 08 2020, @09:39PM (2 children)
Yep, move the goalposts again and stoke the flames of fear to distract from declass, pay off more crooked scientists beholden to Chinese and Jewish global interests, and this is what we have. Good thing it will all be dismantled and go away on Nov. 4th.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday October 09 2020, @04:46AM (1 child)
Are you stocking up on gunpowder again?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday October 09 2020, @05:23AM
COVID-19 is one of the many pieces of political rope rootless Bolsheviks and other ChiCom sympathizers are using to figuratively hang themselves, because they couldn't hang Trump.
And there's gonna be some bad news when people start waking up and realize that it was all just bullshit. 9/11 was carefully crafted to ensure that, by the time people woke up, it would be too long-gone for most to care about. Things will happen much differently, quickly and possibly violently to the detriment of certain politicians and their buddies the crooked intelligence agencies, along with their Antifa/BLM enforcers.
As a Buddhist, I of course don't believe in violence and if it breaks out I will nonviolently lodge a cowardly retreat to a safe place until order is restored. I doubt a hypothetical small business owner who needlessly lost their entire livelihood because their politicians were using them as pawns in a political tug-of war, would be as friendly.
The phrase "Chinese virus" is not meant to be taken literally. It refers to the Chinese entrenchment subverting and destabilizing Western nations worldwide, to include the infiltration of the FBI and the propping up of West Coast (and, well, Michigan, Minnesota, and some of the East Coast) dictators. And the Jews are on board with this, because China was to be their next great opportunity for profits after America was sucked dry and then tossed out like a pair of shit-stained underwear.
I think what happened was that COVID-19 was Globohomo's big move to enslave people, but certain unexpected events forced their hand in a "do or die" gambit to prematurely put the plan into motion, with the messy results we all now see. Let's hope that the cold civil war doesn't go hot!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by VLM on Thursday October 08 2020, @12:45PM (3 children)
It proves the inherent racism of the Chinese Flu in that devout leftist non-whites sacramentally smoke weed at their gatherings and riots, and weed smoke does not kill Chinese Flu.
Meanwhile Rich White Capitalist Christian Men plot their takeover of the world at civilized cocktail parties and the ethanol in the oppressor's single malt imported whiskys kills Chinese Flu viruses.
I believe this is why you see spikes in Chinese Flu death after race riots when cops just do their job, but do not see spikes in Chinese Flu after right wing political rallies in support of The God Emperor.
Not entirely sure how much insightful or humor mod I'm aiming for with this one. Both I suppose. It is pretty funny that your average heroin addicted pot smoking out of town arsonist felon Jewish dude at a BLM riot spreads the disease thru the whole population of degenerates, whereas the Trump cocktail party I recently attended has the "antidote" for the virus in every shot glass, LOL.
(Score: 4, Informative) by hendrikboom on Thursday October 08 2020, @01:33PM (1 child)
Single malt imported whiskeys usually do not reach 80% alcohol.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday October 09 2020, @01:02PM
Maybe increase exposure time or turbocharge with some grain alcohol.
(Score: 5, Touché) by PiMuNu on Thursday October 08 2020, @02:56PM
> Trump cocktail party
Moscow Mule was top of the menu?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 08 2020, @03:29PM (1 child)
Two questions:
1. How long does it last if the skin is orange?
2. How long does it last on the feet of a fly?
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday October 08 2020, @08:20PM
"How long does it last on the feet of a fly?"
My guess is it depends on how thick the shellac is on Mike Pence's head. (If you watched the debate last night you know what I'm saying).
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 0, Troll) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 08 2020, @04:31PM (3 children)
I heard some scientist say that just looking at a person infected with coronavirus will infect you with coronavirus, too, so we should all stop looking at others and walk around with blinds on.
Then, yesterday I heard from some network news of very important people like MSNBC or CNN or something that if you see somebody on TV without a mask on, that it will literally kill you. So we shouldn't watch TV either.
At this point, probably even hearing about coronavirus will make you get it.
Better curl into a fetal position in a dark subterranean room and whimper until it's over. We want you to be safe (tm).
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Thursday October 08 2020, @05:25PM
Lol. I've read your posting history. No, you didn't.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday October 09 2020, @02:07AM (1 child)
You turned into a zombie parody of yourself incredibly quickly. You really went all-in on this shit.
Guess what, Phoenix? There's no going back. Even if you have a change of heart later, some stains do not wash out of the soul and what you've done is one of them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 09 2020, @05:15AM
I would say that comment applies to most solylentites commenting on current USA politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @04:40PM (1 child)
Any question as to how the magic appeared in the supposedly natural virus or what parts of its decoded genome are responsible, is Heresy of teh Unbelievers!!! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 09 2020, @02:41AM
I guess it's a good thing it's unlikely Trump will die from this.
If he did, you would claim that Hillary Clinton had murdered him, because COVID is all just a hoax.