12 Mar 2020, theguardian.com: The science of soap – here’s how it kills the coronavirus. Alcohol-based disinfectants are also effective, but soap is a highly efficient way of killing the virus when it’s on your skin Citat: "...Disinfectants, liquids, wipes, gels and creams containing alcohol are all useful at getting rid of them – but they are not quite as good as normal soap...So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive...The soap not only loosens the “glue” between the virus and the skin but also the Velcro-like interactions that hold the proteins, lipids and RNA in the virus together...So, soap is the best, but do please use alcohol-based sanitiser when soap is not handy or practical...", backup
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12 Mar 2020, theguardian.com: The science of soap – here’s how it kills the coronavirus. Alcohol-based disinfectants are also effective, but soap is a highly efficient way of killing the virus when it’s on your skin Citat: "...Disinfectants, liquids, wipes, gels and creams containing alcohol are all useful at getting rid of them – but they are not quite as good as normal soap...So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive...The soap not only loosens the “glue” between the virus and the skin but also the Velcro-like interactions that hold the proteins, lipids and RNA in the virus together...So, soap is the best, but do please use alcohol-based sanitiser when soap is not handy or practical...", backup
