Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
That temperature thing doesnt sound right, if it dies at 27 it shouldnt be able to survive base internal body temperature of 34.
The chain mail likely simplified at point of origin, or degraded over time.

According to this work:

Most data were described with the endemic human coronavirus strain (HCoV-) 229E. On different types of materials it can remain infectious for from 2 hours up to 9 days. A higher temperature such as 30°C or 40°C reduced the duration of persistence of highly pathogenic MERS-CoV, TGEV and MHV. However, at 4°C persistence of TGEV and MHV can be increased to ≥ 28 days. Few comparative data obtained with SARS-CoV indicate that persistence was longer with higher inocula (Table I). In addition it was shown at room temperature that HCoV-229E persists better at 50% compared to 30% relative humidity [8].
Hydrogen peroxide and ethanol still good disinfectants though.