Reply To: Coronavirus

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gothitjulie
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    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