FReegards Fury!
Love the correction and contradiction. That is the way!
I am with Justin Lessler, PhD who is my hero right now on this virus. He is on the Epidemiology faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Univ. in Baltimore. But he is going by the nature of the virus as a coronavirus.
But you rang the bell when you said “at infective levels.” I am convinced that sufficient viral load is necessary for this thing to be deadly. (Though I do accept that there are “super carriers” just like we had with SARS classic.)
Three features:
It is a zoonotic virus. Do you need a citation for that?
It is a SARS like virus. Citation needed?
It is a novel coronavirus. Citation needed?
My position will be that the burden of proof falls on those who say that SARS-CoV-2 will be unlike other coronaviruses.
From the CDC web-site:
"Can the virus that causes COVID-19 be spread through food, including refrigerated or frozen food?"
"Coronaviruses are generally thought to be spread from person-to-person through respiratory droplets. Currently there is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with food. Before preparing or eating food it is important to always wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds for general food safety. Throughout the day wash your hands after blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing, or going to the bathroom.
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, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
In general, because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from food products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient, refrigerated, or frozen temperatures."
- see https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html
Your comments about hand washing are so correct!