The virus can live in the air for several hours, US gov study has found.

[dewsgirl]

Link to tweet

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[lame54]

1. Does it float or land

[LizBeth]

2. That was my question. Just floating around for people to suck in?

Really puts into perspective washing hands and disinfecting stuff.

[dewsgirl]

4. I am thinking in the air, means it's airborne. The WHO mentioned

this once and then stayed far away from the subject.

[Mike 03]

7. OMG

I didn't know this subject had ever come up before yesterday's South China Morning Post article about a study that was retracted.

This is extremely dire.

[dewsgirl]

10. I subscribe to them on YT, I find some of their clips helpful

and the other half feel like propaganda to me.
And yes dire, I'm beginning to think many have known, that's why such drastic decisions were being made from the beginning.

[rainbow4321]

12. Which is why CDC says patients should be in *airborne* isolation

And now they have put frontline healthcare workers at further risk by telling them while the patients should stay in airborne iso, healthcare workers have to DOWNGRADE their masks to plain surgical masks (used for droplet isolation) all because the country’s supply of N95 (airborne) masks has been depleted. Once the supply is back up, we should BACK to N95 masks.

They’ve *known* this is airborne since this started.

[Frustratedlady]

5. I don't know about that, but I did read that the virus is contained in an "envelope"

made of oil and fat. That is why soap and water should be used to break down the oil/fat...layman's explanation. If using alcohol, bleach, peroxide, etc., the surface should be rubbed with the paper towel, not just wiped. I should think it would float and land.

[Talitha]

16. 'Lipids' is what I heard the oil-fat encasement called.

And thanks for mentioning 'rubbing'. That's new to me.

[Mike 03]

3. This changes everything.

"Several hours."

That's even worse than the study from the South China Morning Post saying it might live for up to 30 minutes in the air.

That's even going to make going anywhere where there are other people hazardous, no matter how much you wash your hands, unless you can hold your breath long enough to do grocery shopping.

Am I overstating the situation? Somebody calm me down.

[Lochloosa]

8. Can't

[sl8]

9. "We're not by any way saying there is aerosolized transmission of the virus"

[...]

Their work, published Wednesday, doesn’t prove that anyone has been infected through breathing it from the air or by touching contaminated surfaces, researchers stress.

“We’re not by any way saying there is aerosolized transmission of the virus,” but this work shows that the virus stays viable for long periods in those conditions, so it’s theoretically possible, said study leader Neeltje van Doremalen at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

[...]

[defacto7]

6. So it's airborne. That's a game changer.

Has there been any reports about its viability on clothing? I haven't heard any discussion of the dangers or proceedure concerning clothing.

[BusyBeingBest]

11. Well, I guess I'm glad I got a copper kitchen sink.

I didn't believe the antimicrobial marketing for it, but I guess there's something to it after all. Not good that this stuff just hangs in the air, that's a bummer--I guess it can float through ventilation systems too.

[dewsgirl]

13. Yes, the cruise ships.

[Mike 03]

14. Maybe that "Emergency Meeting" at the WH had something to do with this?

I'm cynical about that emergency meeting too, but the release of this new study has me thinking.

[dewsgirl]

15. I don't know...I highly doubt they will tell us, especially him.

He's probably just trying to calm the markets. There was also just an attack where two US soldiers died and 11 wounded,
may be related .😔

[llmart]

17. I can envision that orange dunce in that meeting...

sitting there with his arms crossed over his fat stomach and pouting saying, "They told me there'd be KFC for lunch. When is it being delivered?"

He contributes absolutely zero to any meeting. Why don't they just lock him in his room and let him tweet til his heart's content (or til it gives out, hopefully).