Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound shipments

Re:Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound ship... by sitkack on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:42AM (#22605945)

24 hrs on cardboard, up to 72 hrs on plastic/stainless steel (smooth surfaces).

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Re:Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound ship... by lorenzhs on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:41PM (#22606793)

in a lab setting. Being able to infect a cell line in a lab is rather different from being able to infect a person. German public broadcaster NDR has a good podcast with an actual virologist, the transcript (in German, deepl.com should do the trick) is at https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/14-Coronavirus-Update-Vo...

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Re:Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound ship... by wool_gather on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:18PM (#22606469)

Caveat: that's our best understanding at this time; that study hasn't been reproduced as far as I've seen.

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Re:Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound ship... by sitkack on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:24PM (#22606556)

I would take these as minimums, still wipe down outside material with bleach/windex/soap water.

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Re:Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound ship... by wool_gather on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:49PM (#22606906)

Exactly, yes. Although, does the amount of ammonia in window cleaner actually do anything useful?

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Re:Fulfillment by Amazon suspends non-essential inbound ship... by sitkack on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:45PM (#22607730)

It is the degreaser that makes the outside of the virus fall apart.

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