We went around with this at the beginning of the pandemic, when Christians debated whether it was safe to offer the Most Precious Blood as Holy Communion. Whil

We went around with this at the beginning of the pandemic, when Christians debated whether it was safe to offer the Most Precious Blood as Holy Communion. While silver and other noble metals have antimicrobial properties, the percentage of alcohol in altar wine is way too low to make a difference. When transubstantiated from wine to blood, it retains the accidents of wine, and those accidents will infect you with a disease just as any other. That's the miracle of the Eucharist; our feeble senses can't distinguish it, nor could a microscope or science lab point out which is Eucharist, and which is ordinary wine. Almost all Western churches suspended distribution under the species of wine, even though the odds were very, very low. The Eastern Orthodox couldn't do this, however, and it led to several Greek bishops insisting that no disease could come from this Holiest of Mysteries, and that it is uniquely special and don't worry about COVID-19.