> The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recognizes that while it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that

> The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recognizes that while it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads There was a rash of headlines back around May 20 in which news outlets proclaimed that the CDC had changed its guidance from saying that fomite transmission was a concern to wasn't a concern. It turns out that those headlines were based on nothing and those stories were debunked by the New York Times[1]. The CDC had been consistently saying that fomites were an unlikely route of transmission but had tweaked the wording on their website and news outlets jumped all over it as if it were based on new research. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/cdc-coronavirus-touching-surfaces.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/cdc-coronavirus-to...