SciShow: How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 Last on Surfaces? What We Know

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Probability Fundamentals course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. If a surface is contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, how long does it pose a risk of infection? Hosted by: Hank Green COVID-19 News &Updates playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNB4peY6C6IQediwz2GzMTNvm_dMzr47 SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html%23How-COVID-19-Spreads https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-transmission-of-virus-causing-covid-19-implications-for-ipc-precaution-recommendations https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/coronavirus-information/how-to-minimize-your-risk/why-do-viruses-survive-outside-the-human-body https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-long-do-cold-and-flu-viruses-stay-contagious-on-public-surfaces https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30003-3/fulltext https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/20/sars-cov-2-survive-on-surfaces/ https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0012009


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