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1/ WaPo: The coronavirus can be shed by people even BEFORE they develop symptoms. That pre-symptomatic transmission has helped it become a STEALTH contagion, spreading through communities before they know what hit them.

washingtonpost.com/health/coronav…
2/Some coronavirus can potentially remain viable — capable of infecting a person — for up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel.
3/ The MAIN WAY the virus has been spreading has been through droplets — like when someone SNEEZES or COUGHS. Such DROPLETS can TRAVEL up to SIX FEET.
4/ The coronavirus may take MANY DAYS — up to 14 — BEFORE an infection flares into symptoms, and although most people recover without a serious illness, this is not a bug that comes and goes quickly. A SERIOUS case of covid-19 can last for WEEKS.
5/ Among patients who survived the disease, the virus continued to be shed for between 8 and 37 days.

(The study did not reach any conclusions on whether and to what extent this persistence could lead to infections in other people.)
6/ People should understand that SURFACES that contain the virus — known to scientists as fomites — are NOT the MAJOR DRIVERS of this pandemic.

Covid-19 is PRIMARILY spread through DIRECT PERSON-TO-PERSON contact.
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