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Got any non-paywalled sources handy?

• gruez 5y ago
  Normally I'd link to archive.is, but they put everything behind a captcha wall, which I'm not keen to solve. You can bypass the paywall with scripts disabled, but the key excerpts are: >But the era of “hygiene theater” may have come to an unofficial end this week, when the C.D.C. updated its surface cleaning guidelines (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/disinfecting-building-facility.html#anchor_1617548426741 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/disinfec...) and noted that the risk of contracting the virus from touching a contaminated surface was less than 1 in 10,000 (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-research/surface-transmission.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...). >“People can be affected with the virus that causes Covid-19 through contact with contaminated surfaces and objects,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the C.D.C., said at a White House briefing on Monday. “However, evidence has demonstrated that the risk by this route of infection of transmission is actually low.”