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by echelon 2284 days ago
Do you have a citation for this? I don't want to blindly trust that fomites aren't a major risk.

If true, that changes how I want to get food to my elders. (I've already gotten them several months worth, but I don't see an end to this and would feel safer if they had more runway.)

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The CDC does state in one place that inhalation appears to be the primary route: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmissi...

It says surface -> hands -> mucous membrane "is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads".

But then again, the TTL of the virus on surfaces is still not certain, so, as also noted there "we are still learning how it spreads".