{"id":107095,"date":"2020-05-15T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/video-of-black-light-experiment-shows-how-fast-a-virus-can-spread-in-a-restaurant-setting"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:42:19","slug":"video-of-black-light-experiment-shows-how-fast-a-virus-can-spread-in-a-restaurant-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/video-of-black-light-experiment-shows-how-fast-a-virus-can-spread-in-a-restaurant-setting","title":{"rendered":"Video of black light experiment shows how fast a virus can spread in a restaurant setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-of-black-light-experiment-shows-how-fast-a-virus-can-spread-in-a-restaurant-setting3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the video, one person is designed as the \u201cinfected\u201d patient and is given a special black light-ready solution to rub into his hands. (The solution is invisible without a black light, so participants in the demonstration can\u2019t see it during the simulation.) Then, everyone in the experiment does what people normally do at a buffet restaurant \u2014 they dish up food, eat chat, and drink. At the end of the video, a black light is turned on, and you can see the \u201cvirus\u201d just about everywhere. It shows up on utensils, cups, food and even on some participants\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say this is definitely worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an accurate illustration of how many commonly touched surfaces there are and how many opportunities there are for viruses to spread,\u201d Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Yahoo Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video, one person is designed as the \u201cinfected\u201d patient and is given a special black light-ready solution to rub into his hands. (The solution is invisible without a black light, so participants in the demonstration can\u2019t see it during the simulation.) Then, everyone in the experiment does what people normally do at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}