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Re:Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City by echelon on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:05PM (#22577243)
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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Re:Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City by wool_gather on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:29PM (#22577443)
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".

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Re:Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City by erikbye on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:28PM (#22577959)
The TTL might be days.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

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