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Yes. Just wash it first, but you should do that anyway. I saw a doctor speaking about this very thing. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, so it doesn't do well in the digestive tract. That means that even if there is some of the virus on the food, and you eat it, the virus will die rather than make you sick. The virus also doesn't do well with heat, so cooking will kill it too.
Not so fast. The digestive and respiratory systems do cross paths and share some plumbing. If your food has viruses then some could get stuck in the larynx and you could end up getting sick.
Not so fast. The digestive and respiratory systems do cross paths and share some plumbing. If your food has viruses then some could get stuck in the larynx and you could end up getting sick.
Such as tomatoes, lettuce, broccoli, grapes, berries. If the virus is in the air presumably it can land on any fruit or vegetable that a person who is carrying the virus comes within six feet of. If we peel the fruit or vegetable before eating it does that make it safe from viral contamination? If we can't easily peel it are we supposed to wash and rinse it, or cook it to a recommended temperature, or just stay away from it for now?
The virus dissipates after 1 to several days, from surfaces. I've heard on tv it's 1 day, and I've heard it's several. In any case, just wash the produce, when you eat the outer layer.
The virus dissipates after 1 to several days, from surfaces. I've heard on tv it's 1 day, and I've heard it's several. In any case, just wash the produce, when you eat the outer layer.
Beg to differ.
Coronaviruses survive up to 9 days on glass, so think about buying jam at the grocery store and not washing the jar. Steel about 3 days, cardboard/paper about a day.
Live coronavirus was found in the cruise ship in Japan SEVENTEEN days after it was vacated by everyone. Oopsy...we're being fed some bad baloney again, a false sense of control and safety by authorities...this thing doesn't like to die. And refrigerators/freezers with glass containers are how virologists preserve viruses for study under their microscopes.
What viruses don't like is UV light which kills them.
Beg to differ.
Coronaviruses survive up to 9 days on glass, so think about buying jam at the grocery store and not washing the jar. Steel about 3 days, cardboard/paper about a day.
Live coronavirus was found in the cruise ship in Japan SEVENTEEN days after it was vacated by everyone. Oopsy...we're being fed some bad baloney again, a false sense of control and safety by authorities...this thing doesn't like to die. And refrigerators/freezers with glass containers are how virologists preserve viruses for study under their microscopes.
What viruses don't like is UV light which kills them.
But the good news is: the virus on any surface or even on your hands can't infect you VIA TOUCH TRANSMISSION unless you convey what's on that surface and/or on your hands to your eyes, nostrils, or mouth (or possibly food). AEROSOL TRANSMISSION (simply breathing it in as others around you exhale it) is much harder to control, and the authorities definitely don't want you thinking about that!!! Hence keeping you busy hand-washing and surface-cleaning.
Beg to differ.
Coronaviruses survive up to 9 days on glass, so think about buying jam at the grocery store and not washing the jar. Steel about 3 days, cardboard/paper about a day. Live coronavirus was found in the cruise ship in Japan SEVENTEEN days after it was vacated by everyone. Oopsy...we're being fed some bad baloney again, a false sense of control and safety by authorities...this thing doesn't like to die. And refrigerators/freezers with glass containers are how virologists preserve viruses for study under their microscopes.
What viruses don't like is UV light which kills them.
Speaking of oopsy...
You can beg all you want, but you'd still be wrong. A trace of the virus's RNA was detectable in the cabins after 17 days. That's not the same as a live virus.
The misleading and erroneous contention circulating around Facebook and other social media that live virus was found in the cabins after 17 days was debunked over two weeks ago by Politifact and others.
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University, told Politifact that it was the presence of the virus that was found, not a live sample.
"The CDC report examined the presence of viral RNA on various surfaces of the cruise ship. They found viral RNA up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess," Iwasaki wrote in an email. "A piece of viral RNA is not the same thing as a live infectious virus. In order for a virus to be infectious, it has to have intact membrane, spike protein and the whole intact genome (there are close to 30,000 bases of genetic code in the viral genome)."
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