{"id":2096,"date":"2020-11-10T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2020-11-12T13:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:25:55","slug":"modeling-the-stability-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-on-skin-currency-and-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/10\/modeling-the-stability-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-on-skin-currency-and-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling the Stability of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on Skin, Currency, and Clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harbourt et al. exposed SARS-CoV-2 to human skin, paper currency, and clothing in a lab setting under various temperatures and found that the virus was more stable in colder conditions. At 22<sup>o<\/sup>C, the virus was stable on human skin, a $1 bill, and on clothing, for at least 96 hours, 8 hours, and 4 hours, respectively. At lower temperature (4<sup>o<\/sup>C) the duration of viral stability increased to up to 14 days, at least 96 hours, and at least 96 hours, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><i>Harbourt et al. (Nov 9, 2020). Modeling the Stability of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on Skin, Currency, and Clothing. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pntd.0008831\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pntd.0008831<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harbourt et al. exposed SARS-CoV-2 to human skin, paper currency, and clothing in a lab setting under various temperatures and found that the virus was more stable in colder conditions. At 22oC, the virus was stable on human skin, a $1 bill, and on clothing, for at least 96 hours, 8 hours, and 4 hours,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/10\/modeling-the-stability-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-on-skin-currency-and-clothing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}