October 18, 2020 at 1:43 pm
#127309
Keep washing your hands & using the alcohol gel….
Why? – “Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu”
Summary – Influenza virus remains active on human skin for just over 1.8 hours, COVID virus remains active on human skin for just over 9 hours. Ethanol inactivated both the flu virus & COVID virus within 15 seconds.
Evidence – You can download the full PDF file from this page – https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1517/5917611