[PLUG-TALK] Online local produce shopping?

[Bill Barry]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:04 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:08:21 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
>
> >(Note to self: Figure out how true the temperature thing is.)
>
> Well, if anyone know the answer to that question they haven't published
> it yet. Or at least DuckDuckGo can't find their paper. I did find a ton
> of 'research' on weather-related temperature issues involving the rate
> of transmission, but that is not what I wanted. I was trying to figure
> out at what temperature range can COVID-19 survive outside the body.
> And even the weather-related temperature research was full of stuff
> like 'may,' 'might,' 'possibly,' and so on.
>
> Clearly COVID-19 can survive and reproduce inside a human body, but
> once it's outside its host, what does it need to survive? Moisture?
> Temperature range? If my car is left outside overnight and the
> temperature drops to below freezing, can I assume that any COVID-19 on
> it is dead by the following morning? What about putting food in my
> refrigerator? And how long can it survive in these various
> environments?


It can survive fairly well on surfaces.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-covid-19-how-long-does-the-coronavirus-last-on-surfaces

Bill