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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 25191069" data-attributes="member: 562115">A copy of a post i just made on the main Coronavirus thread.....You cannot assume or guess things. I don't think anyone has made a study on this Covid virus. But normally a Coronavirus is susceptible to temperature. A normal virus is made of nucleic acid, inside a protein shell called the capsid. A coronavirus has an external membrane outside the shell. This membrane is heat sensitive.So, in effect the survival of the virus itself declines with the increase of temperature - but not it's ability to infect.Studies with SARS have shown that it remains quite stable at 4 deg C, but lose its effectiveness in three days at 37 deg, and survives only for 15 mins at 70 degrees below zero.At 4 deg C , it was found that the SARS virus remained active for 28 days!</blockquote>

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