Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/cWt1ehOzTss   The Omicron CoVid variant lives over one week on plastic and nearly a day on skin.  That’s longer than the original Wuhan CoVid strain and any other variant.  Japanese researchers draw this conclusion after measuring the environmental stability of all CoVid variants as well as the ability of various disinfectants to kill them.   In this graph, you can see that the Omicron variant survives longer on both plastic and human skin than any other variant or CoVid strain.  Omicron can live for 193.5 hours or 8 days on plastic and for 21 hours on skin.   The good news is that Omicron, like the other variants, is completely inactivated by 70% isopropyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol in 15 seconds.   https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.18.476607v1.full.pdf+html   #CoVid #omicron #plastic #skin #isopropylalcohol