have identified small amounts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in corpses for as many as 17 days following their deaths, scientists typically consider these traces as too minor to pose a significant threat of transmission.That said, a team of researchers recently revealed that substantial amounts of the coronavirus could survive in cadavers for weeks at a time, sometimes spilling over into living individuals, as a result.
“When death occurs because of rapidly worsening COVID-19 symptoms or within a short period after SARS-CoV-2 infection, the probability that infectious virus remains in the corpse is high,” the researchers state in theStrengthening these results, the researchers also assessed the bodies of coronavirus-infected rodents in theof the two studies.
so.... time to empty the basement freezer I suppose? (did I go too far? new year = new me.)