COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[nocarename]

nocarename: as the article states at least one, probably both, were flown in on small jets that had been specially set up for infectious diseases, the problem is that to be absolutely certain that no virus was accidentally left behind they would then have had to strip the entire inside of the aircraft down to bare metal and incinerate the contents while treating the bare metal with damn near pure chlorine to ensure nothing was left there. Because this is not cost effective i HIGHLY DOUBT the CDC did such with that aircraft.

So Ebola is a horrific disease, but it actually doesn't jump form person to to chair to person so easily apparently. It is not measles or even chicken pox for infectiousness.

In general, the virus survived on surfaces for a longer time when in the climate-controlled conditions than in the West African environment, the study found. Under hospital-like conditions, the virus lived for 11 days on Tyvek, eight days on plastic and four days on stainless steel. The longest the virus was able to survive in the tropical conditions of the West African environment was three days, on Tyvek.
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The study also found that the Ebola virus could survive in water for up to six days. The potential for the virus to be spread through wastewater remains unknown, but the new finding "warrants further investigation into the persistence of the virus in aqueous environments, such as in wastewater or sewage canals," the researchers said.

Finally, the study found that the virus could survive in dried blood for up to five days, and in liquid blood (outside the body) for as long as 14 days.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/50758-ebola-...faces.html
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So a good cleaning with bleach, maybe some quality time with a high concentration of ozone and two weeks of no touching once the patient was out and all the evidence we have says that the plane should be safe. I'm not trying to make light of the work that would actually need to be done with care and attention to detail, but I am saying that the level of effort you are describing would actually be overkill when the best evidence we have is that parking the plane for a month and scrubbing it down two or three times would apparently do the job very well and with a safety factor.

That said, I hope the plane was light on tricky to clean parts like carpeted floors. There's no point in making the work harder than it needs to be and burnable, disposable covers over everything probably wouldn't hurt, but I've never seen one of the planes in question and I'm not in a hurry to either.

Respect disease, investigate it, be cautious, but give it no ground that it does not actually hold.