{"id":7741,"date":"2020-06-23T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T19:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:36:11","slug":"persistence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-environment-and-covid-19-transmission-risk-from-environmental-matrices-and-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/23\/persistence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-environment-and-covid-19-transmission-risk-from-environmental-matrices-and-surfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment and COVID-19 Transmission Risk from Environmental Matrices and Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carraturo et al. review<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ound<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">survival<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of the virus\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">likely to be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">very low in contaminated food, on inanimate surfaces, and in water, wastewater, sludge,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">or<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0bio-solid waste contaminated by feces.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They note that while transmission risks may be higher for some occupational groups (e.g., wastewater treatment workers), with appropriate PPE use and disinfection protocols this risk becomes very low.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Carraturo et al. (June 2020). Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment and COVID-19 Transmission Risk from Environmental Matrices and Surfaces. Environmental Pollution.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envpol.2020.115010\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envpol.2020.115010<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>Carraturo et al. reviewed\u00a0the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment\u00a0and found\u00a0that\u00a0survival\u00a0of the virus\u00a0is\u00a0likely to be\u00a0very low in contaminated food, on inanimate surfaces, and in water, wastewater, sludge,\u00a0or\u00a0bio-solid waste contaminated by feces.\u00a0They note that while transmission risks may be higher for some occupational groups (e.g., wastewater treatment workers), with appropriate PPE use and disinfection protocols this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/23\/persistence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-environment-and-covid-19-transmission-risk-from-environmental-matrices-and-surfaces\/\">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-7741","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\/7741","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=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7742,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}