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"every bag of groceries is going to be covered in COVID"

Just as a random factoid, somewhere I was just reading that someone was doing testing of surfaces in a hospital, and on average they found maybe 80% contaminated with the virus, but the floor of the pharmacy was 100% even though no patients had been in there...



Well, CDC doesn't believe surface transfer to be a significant factor soo.. There's that.


Asking in good faith (I believe you!) if you could dig out your source, I would find that interesting to read as well.


"as medical staff walk around the ward, the virus can be tracked all over the floor, as indicated by the 100% rate of positivity from the floor in the pharmacy, where there were no patients. Furthermore, half of the samples from the soles of the ICU medical staff shoes tested positive"

Other objects were not as high as I recalled, but computer mice in the ICU were 75%.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0885_article

Also see table: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0885-t1


That's terrifying.




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