Latest Research – How Long Corona Stays Active on Air and Various Surfaces

While health policy makers are eagerly awaiting for scientists to give as much data about COVID-19 virus as possible to do proper risk assessments and frame informed guidelines for people, time is the biggest constraint.

It takes time to thoroughly understand a new virus, its behavior, its growth patterns, its persistence on various objects and surface, what makes it grow exponentially etc. Questions are many, however time is the only factor needed. In fact in this fast moving health crisis, scientists are discarding age old process of research methods and quickly publishing papers with initial understandings of the virus.

However, it takes months. So scientists are adopting 2 approaches to tackle this crisis.

1. Quickly publish research papers on COVID-19 to bring as much information as possible to public domain.

2. Gather information on other members of Corona virus family like – SARS CoV, MERS CoV because initial evidence suggest COVID-19 has comparable behavior in many aspects.

Check out below the details from both research.