Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2

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7. Your last statement is not actually true.

The virus has a lipid layer that is essential to its ability to be infectious. Soap disrupts this layer.

This lipid envelop is critical to infection, since it allows fusion with the cell membrane:

2. Viral structure and life cycle
COVID-19 is a single, positive-stranded RNA virus enveloped in a lipid bilayer [6,7]. The lipid bilayer fuses with the host cell membrane, releasing RNA into the cytoplasm and causing translation of various viral proteins. The replicated RNA genome and synthesized viral proteins reassemble into new viruses, which burst out of the cell [8,9].

Epidemiology and clinical features of COVID-19: A review of current literature (Siordia, Journal of Clinical Virology Volume 127, June 2020, 104357)