On june 28th, 45 days ago, that number was 244.

Last friday it was ~7,500, and today its ~11,200

taking all bets, who's got a timeline of how this goes from here?

  • sappho [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    It can live on surfaces for far more than 14 days. Saying ”14 days" is so laughably short it qualifies as misinformation - I don't know where that got started. Orthopoxviruses can live on surfaces for months to years. The last study I saw had poxvirus in an envelope just chilling at various random temperatures with basically hardly any loss of viability at 13 years, when they stopped the study. You can't deactivate it with time, sunlight, or soaps.

    • comi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Sunlight can deactivate any virus over long enough time, so heavy doubts