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No, covid does not often spread that way but a large number of other common viruses do.
by _yb2s 3y ago
No, covid does not often spread that way but a large number of other common viruses do.
- Scoundreller 3y agoWhich viral respiratory ones? I thought most of them (influenza, parainfluenza, RSV and all the other coronaviruses) were enveloped viruses like covid-19. I guess adenoviruses would be the exception.
- _yb2s 3y agoLook up “fomite transmission.” Rhinovirus colds do transmit that way. Most are also transmitted by aerosols, so you are correct in that… people were wrong that thought you could virtually eliminate virus transmission by just washing your hands a lot.
- melagonster 3y agofor example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus alcohol can not kill everything.
- Scoundreller 3y agoYea, because norovirus is a non-enveloped virus, unlike coronaviruses, influenza, parainfluenza and rhinoviruses. Also it’s what contributes to norovirus being primarily a GI virus (it gets past extreme pH of the stomach).