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The abstract appears to be suggesting that this tea inactivation might make it less likely for Covid positive people to give it to others. Covid is mainly sprea
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
The abstract appears to be suggesting that this tea inactivation might make it less likely for Covid positive people to give it to others. Covid is mainly spread through saliva (droplets when coughing/speaking), but unless you're putting tea up your nose it would seem to not have that much protective effect from catching it.
> Healthy volunteers consumed a candy containing green tea or black tea, and saliva collected from them immediately after the candy consumption significantly decreased BA.1 virus infectivity in vitro.
- amluto 3y agoOr perhaps if you are actively drinking tea and possibly rinsing your nose with it, it will protect you from infection to a decent degree? The study is showing a good deal of virus inactivation from the levels of tea that might be present in saliva 0 minutes after drinking tea. But not such an extreme degree of inactivation that it seems at all likely that residual levels of the active ingredients an hour later would be likely to help much.
- giantg2 3y agoI guess I should have said populations that regularly drink tea.