{"id":6652,"date":"2020-05-06T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:22:03","slug":"effective-heat-inactivation-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/effective-heat-inactivation-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Heat Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wang et al. evaluate the stability of SARS-CoV-2 under four different heat conditions (37, 42, 56, 60\u00b0C) and report that the virus is stable at 37\u00b0C for at least 24 hours. H<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">owever, h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">eating at 56\u00b0C for 30 minutes effectively inactivate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the virus while preserv<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the stability of viral RNA\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for further analysis\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in both human sera and sputum samples. These findings provide a practical way to inactivate infectious\u00a0virus\u00a0in clinical specimens<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wang et al. (May 5, 2020). Effective Heat Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Medical Science Monitor<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.29.20085498\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.29.20085498<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang et al. evaluate the stability of SARS-CoV-2 under four different heat conditions (37, 42, 56, 60\u00b0C) and report that the virus is stable at 37\u00b0C for at least 24 hours. However, heating at 56\u00b0C for 30 minutes effectively inactivates\u00a0the virus while preserving\u00a0the stability of viral RNA\u00a0for further analysis\u00a0in both human sera and sputum samples&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/effective-heat-inactivation-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","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=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}