Let's see what we can do to curb coronavirus pandemics my inactivating the viruses.

*How to inactivate viruses at home*

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During a pandemic like this, one may be worried about the cheapest method of virus inactivation at home. Well, Viruses are the most abundant and tiniest of creatures.

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For instance, the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold can be so small that 500 million of it would barely fit into a pinhead. Technically, viruses are barely considered living things, but, a sandwich of proteins and genetic materials capable of survival and replication.
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They can practically infect all life forms including bacteria!!! So, its size isn’t the only striking feature.

On its own, a virus is functionally inactive until it enters a living cell referred to as a host. The virus outside a host is vulnerable, so much so that a solvent/detergent treatment is the method of choice to inactivate lipid-coat enveloped viruses such as the novel coronavirus.

Regardless of this extracellular vulnerability, viruses are favored by dynamic environmental conditions. In other words, a virus becomes deathly in a favorable environment. Thankfully, there are actions to inactivate a multitude of known and unknown viruses while in their extracellular environment. A few of these will be highlighted.

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