Are you more likely to get covid from the air or surfaces?
How many more times are you likely to catch COVID from the air you breathe than the surfaces you touch?
COVID transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles containing the virus. To add to COVID's deadly airborne infectiousness humans need to breathe air as a necessity whereas we do not need to touch objects.
This leads there to be a staggering 1000 times greater likelihood of of catching COVID through the air than through contact with objects.
This statistic is backed up by many recent studies such as one professor saying "Our results suggest that there was a much higher risk of infection from inhalation than from contact with surfaces like door handles, drinking fountains, keyboards, desks, sinks and light switches." This study also presented that In all, more than 250 air samples were gathered, of which 1.6% tested positive for the virus that causes COVID. Of over 500 surface samples, 1.4% were positive. And after conducting more tests it was found that the probability of getting COVID after exposure to airborne virus particles was roughly 1 per 100 exposures and the probability of getting covid after exposure to contaminated surfaces is 1 per 1000 exposures.
You can read more here: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-covid-transmission-air-surfaces.amp
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COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles containing the virus. To add to covids deadly airborne infectiousness humans need to breathe air as a necessity whereas we do not need to touch objects. This leads to a staggering 1000 times more likely to catch covid through the air than through contact with objects.This statistic is backed up by many recent studies such as one professor saying "Our results suggest that there was a much higher risk of infection from inhalation than from contact with surfaces like door handles, drinking fountains, keyboards, desks, sinks and light switches." This study also presented that In all, more than 250 air samples were gathered, of which 1.6% tested positive for the virus that causes COVID. Of over 500 surface samples, 1.4% were positive. And after conducting more tests it was found that the probability of getting COVID after exposure to airborne virus particles was roughly 1 per 100 exposures and the probability of getting covid after exposure to contaminated surfaces is 1 per 1000 exposures.
