The article is really not as definitive about it as I was expecting from the title. Basically it’s “we don’t really know, we don’t even really examine most sou

The article is really not as definitive about it as I was expecting from the title. Basically it’s “we don’t really know, we don’t even really examine most sources of infection, we’ve never done controlled trials on it, you can find the virus on lots of surfaces, most of the time it’s probably not infectious but sometimes it could be, there have been a few documented cases of infections from surfaces”. It’s clearly a lower risk than airborne transmission but it seems like we can’t say with much certainty how low. The only estimate of a risk probability mentioned is a 5 in 10000 chance of being infected if you’re out in public touching things. Not even sure if this was from a real study or just an expert’s back of the envelope calculation. I don’t know exactly the parameters involved but if you had taken that chance every day for the past year you would have had a 17% chance of getting infected at some point which is relatively significant. And seems like it would be likely worse at times the outbreak is at a higher peak, or if you’re an essential worker taking that chance multiple times a day.