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Half Life of the Virus…

Coronavirus

I have been reading and trying to understand an article about how long the virus remains active on various surfaces..

The first thing I gathered is that the name of the Virus itself has a very short half-life..First it was just plain Coronavirus, then it was, HCoV-19 , but now it is SARS-CoV-2 ..

Back to the paper on https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

Coronavirus, if I read it right, has a half life on Cardboard of around 4 hours, and Plastic of around 7 hours.

Therefore, I would be careful about removing shoes and touching the soles, and handling paper and post…

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