Can simple daily steam inhalation prevent COVID infection?
Can simple daily steam inhalation prevent COVID infection? Having a lipid coat, SARS COV-2 is heat sensitive and rapidly loses viability/infectivity at 56°C in 15 minutes (10000 units per 15 minutes) and then rapidly losing thereafter (>3 log10) becoming completely non-viable at 70°C. Likewise, higher relative humidity (>95% at 38°C) also makes it un-infective. It…