Previous by Date: Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Antimicrobial films Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 4:10:23 PM Author: "Schroeder, Imke" <ischroeder**At_Symbol_Here**EHS.UCLA.EDU>
Actually, the wording originally was that the virus was not "easily" transmitted from surfaces. Now you note the wording is that this is not the "main" way it is transmitted and they are still "learning more about how it is spread." I don't think it would be much comfort to find out that I got virus in a way that was not the main way. And here in NYC, many of the hospital cases are in people who were not leaving their homes which seems to implicate surface contamination of delivered goods or some other way that is not person-to-person.
So I will continue disinfecting deliveries and tell CDC to talk to me again when they know. I shouldn't hurt. Monona
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From: Zack Mansdorf <mansdorfz**At_Symbol_Here**BELLSOUTH.NET>
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Sent: Tue, May 26, 2020 2:41 pm
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Antimicrobial films
Colleagues:
The COVID19 infection risk from touching door handles, etc. would seem to me to be quite low. Hand washing would be a much better approach than attempting to decontaminate in all the novel ways that have been suggested. I have always felt this way, but have yet to be proven correct even if my intuition suggests otherwise.
Here is the latest/current statement from the CDC
The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.
It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes. This is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads, but we are still learning more about how this virus spreads.
Consider the main mode of transmission is by inhalation and clearly there is an infectious dose (although that remains unknown). The likelihood of this occurring from hand contamination seems to me to be a stretch.
We will see what further research shows.
Zack
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