{"id":37421,"date":"2020-03-27T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=37421"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:20:45","slug":"aerosol-and-surface-stability-of-sars-cov-2-as-compared-with-sars-cov-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/37421","title":{"rendered":"Aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 as compared with SARS-CoV-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">This study from the US NIAID \u2013 published as a letter to the NEJM \u2013\u00a0is now widely referenced for infectiousness of CoV-2 on different surfaces.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It compared the new coronavirus (CoV-2) with the first SARS virus<\/span> in five environmental conditions (aerosols, plastic, stainless steel, copper, and cardboard). Both viruses had similar results, remaining infectious on all surfaces for 72 hours and for longer on stainless steel and plastic than on copper or cardboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">However, the degree of infectiousness measured as <span lang=\"EN-US\">tissue-culture infectiousness dose (TCID)<\/span> dramatically dropped over this time, for example <span lang=\"EN-US\">(from approximately 5000 to 5 TCID\/mL) after 48 hours on stainless steel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\">Ref: van Doremalen N et al. <span lang=\"EN-US\">Aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 as compared with SARS-CoV-1. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">NEJM. Letter to editor. DOI: 10.1056\/NEJMc2004973 (17 March 2020)<br \/>\n<\/span><b><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2004973\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2004973<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base This study from the US NIAID \u2013 published as a letter to the NEJM \u2013\u00a0is now widely referenced for infectiousness of CoV-2 on different surfaces. It compared the new coronavirus (CoV-2) with the first SARS virus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,289,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmission-and-prevention","category-covid-19-transmission","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}