Standard Methods Rid Hospital Rooms of Coronavirus

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https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200309/standard-methods-rid-hospital-rooms-of-coronavirus-slashing-transmission-rates?src=RSS_PUBLIC#1

The virus was found all over the hospital rooms of three COVID-19 patients in Singapore, a report published online March 4 in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed. The virus was found on a host of surfaces, including bed rails, door handles, chairs, light switches, windows, sinks, stethoscopes, air fans and toilets, according to a team led by Sean Wei Xiang Ong, of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, in Singapore.
The good news? All of those surfaces wound up virus-free following routine cleaning with a widely used chlorinated sanitizer, suggesting that coronavirus is no more hearty than the flu or noroviruses, said Dr. Greg Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, in Rochester, Minn.

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A total of 445 people had close contact with 10 travel-related cases of COVID-19 that appeared early in the United States, as the virus raced through China. Nineteen were members of a patient's household, and five of those 19 continued to have household exposure while the patients were held in isolation, according to Rachel Burke, of the CDC's COVID-19 Response Team, and colleagues. The remainder of the 445 include 104 community members who spent at least 10 minutes within six feet of an infected person, 100 people exposed to a sick person in a health care setting, and 222 health care workers.
Despite all this exposure, only two people wound up contracting the coronavirus from the first 10 patients, both of them spouses of infected people. That amounts to a secondary infection rate of 0.45% among all close contacts and 10.5% among household members.

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People should expect the surfaces around a coronavirus patient to be contaminated, but the virus is easily killed with disinfectants, bleach, alcohol and other common cleansers. "All of those sorts of things very handily kill this virus," Poland said.

Entire article is quite enlightening. First good news I've seen in WEEKS!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Thanks for article. Article writer needs to write "hardy" not "hearty".

A "hearty" meal is a substantial filling nutritious meal.

A "hardy" tree is one that survives storms, injuries, and disease.

[Tink41]

2. Drives me crazy

See it happening more and more. At first I thought it was due to "spell check" or whatever program suggests, corrects spelling. But now I'm convinced people have no clue.

[Hoyt]

3. Good news.