Tuesday 11 February 2020

A Lancet study indicates coronavirus is resistant to direct sunlight


I can't track down the actual paper

Coronavirus is resistant to 

direct sunlight



Almost every natural virus/bacteria is killed by direct sunlight UV-C , but this one seems resistant to direct sunlight, hence the Chinese mass spraying of disinfectants

And this may be the smoking gun!

A study from Lancet medical journal

Study of incubation periods



We fitted a log-normal distribution to pooled data and found the median incubation period to be 5·6 days (95% CI 4·8–6·3) for adenovirus, 3·2 days (95% CI 2·8–3·7) for human coronavirus, 4·0 days (95% CI 3·6–4·4) for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, 1·4 days (95% CI 1·3–1·5) for influenza A, 0·6 days (95% CI 0·5–0·6) for influenza B, 12·5 days (95% CI 11·8–13·3) for measles, 2·6 days (95% CI 2·1–3·1) for parainfluenza, 4·4 days (95% CI 3·9–4·9) for respiratory syncytial virus, and 1·9 days (95% CI 1·4–2·4) for rhinovirus.

This study claims regular coronavirus has an incubation period of 1·4 days 95% of the time!

This one is along as 14 days?


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