Peter, Brilliant, beautiful and perfect for explaining to people. But I have to tell you there is one error in it.
Peter, The statement that the bug lives for 24 hours on surfaces, is incorrect. There are now 4 studies of COVID-19 on surfaces, and the people who did the studies, except for one, erred in not recording the humidity and temperature over the time of the tests. So lengths of time that live virus was found on surfaces appear to be inconsistent ranging from hours to 17 days. But these results are not inconsistent when you factor in what is known about viruses. For example, the 17 day and other long survival times were found on hard surfaces on a cruise ship study where the humidity is very high. This is easy to explain when you look at the three major factors that influence survival time:
a) humidity (higher humidities --> longer survival)
b) temperature (too low inactivates but may not kill; mid-range with an optimum temp some where; too hot kills)
c) the nature of the surface. (porous = shorter life; hard surface = longer life; toxic surface , e.g., copper, = shorter)
So the NIOSH study for reusing N95s by putting them in paper bags for 5 days showed the virus dead in 2-3 days. Paper bags are necessary to dry out the mask and keep humidity from being trapped in the bag.
The 24 hour number in the video unfortunately made it more difficult to convince our people who are subletting to HCWs that it would be best to disinfect hard contact surfaces after occupancy by virus positive/exposed tenants.
Any chance this one wee boo could be repaired and a perfect video release?
Monona
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Thank so much. So proud to work with amazing people like her.
Yes.. Please link to
https://medicine.yale.edu/media-player/4989/, which is a site made available to the public by the Yale School of Medicine. Its proper title is, "Covid-19: An Illustrated Scientific Summary" posted April 1, 2020.
Pete
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Pete, this is by far the best thing I've seen on COVID-19 science for a general audience.
A lot of my union's members and families could benefit from this - those staying home, those at work in because they are essential (or their employers think they are), including about 50,000
health care workers on the front lines.
Our website includes a page COVID-19 resources. Could we have permission to post a link to the video? We would, of course, credit Yale and Ms. Liao.
Mike Wright
Michael J. Wright
Director of Health, Safety and Environment
United Steelworkers
412-562-2580 office
412-370-0105 cell
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."
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This 8 minute video is worth every second of your time. It brilliantly explains the molecular and cellular biology, medicine, and epidemiology of COVID-19.
Created by Clara Liao, a first year Neuroscience Ph.D. Student at Yale.
Pete Reinhardt
Yale EHS
