{"id":4974,"date":"2020-03-11T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:14:41","slug":"aerosol-and-surface-stability-of-hcov-19-sars-cov-2-compared-to-sars-cov-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/11\/aerosol-and-surface-stability-of-hcov-19-sars-cov-2-compared-to-sars-cov-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to SARS-CoV-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is new evidence indicating plausible fomite and aerosol transmission of COVID-19. Doremalen et al report that the stability of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment is similar to SARS-CoV-1. The agent can be detected in the aerosols up to 3 hours post aerosolization, up to 2 hours on copper, 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastic (polypropylene) and stainless steel. These results can inform environmental sanitation practices in public spaces and healthcare facilities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doremalen et al. (Mar 10, 2020). Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to SARS-CoV-1.\u00a0 Pre-print downloaded Mar 11 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.09.20033217\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.09.20033217<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is new evidence indicating plausible fomite and aerosol transmission of COVID-19. Doremalen et al report that the stability of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment is similar to SARS-CoV-1. The agent can be detected in the aerosols up to 3 hours post aerosolization, up to 2 hours on copper, 24 hours on cardboard and up to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/11\/aerosol-and-surface-stability-of-hcov-19-sars-cov-2-compared-to-sars-cov-1\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}