Is The Coronavirus Airborne ??

No. It's not airborne.

Airborne means it hangs around in the air after you are gone.

Airborne does not mean it travels through the air.

I'm not a physician. So, take my words with a grain of salt.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and a couple of other MDs, who I've heard interviewed, have said that it CAN be airborne ... BRIEFLY ... in cough/sneeze droplets. But, the danger of immediate contagion would require closeness to the person coughing/sneezing.

Evidently, gravity comes into play, and the virus settles on ground, and other surfaces. And, that's why there is such an extreme caution about touching various, unknown surfaces, then touching your face.

What I have wondered is if the virus is vulnerable to heat or cold. If I put a bottle of white wine in the 'fridge (which I am want to do -- ), would the cold kill the virus? Conversely, would cooking kill the virus, were it on a container that's being micorowaved?

Beware of info being spread around -- a lot of educated non-experts are tossing out theories or extrapolating from similar viruses. You want info from credible sources that study infectious diseases and specifically this virus. A good example is back when SIDS was in the news, many pediatricians spoke with confidence about causes of crib death but a pediatrician is not considered an expert in that field because they treat healthy infants; the correct expert is a pathologist. On another forum I frequent, a dentist has anointed himself the resident expert on coronavirus and posts with authority yet his info is contrary to the CDC website.

Here is a word-for-word copy I typed up on what Dr. David Price (Weill Cornell Medical Center (in New York)) said about COVID-19 on Waters World (on Fox News) on March 28th 2020...



given that info... I am not that concerned with airborne stuff as while he did not completely write that possibility off, it seems to be difficult to contract in the air at the very least and pretty much boils down to hands to face contact.

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Yeah, so basically people need to stop obsessing over face masks and other BS as the bottom line is one just has to be cautious of where there hands have been before touching their face (I get it's best not to touch ones face at all(like the doctor said) but since many of us have a habit of touching our faces randomly, at least we can just keep our hands clean after leaving the house and coming back to the house etc).

but for years now if I am out at say a grocery store like Walmart as I leave there, pretty much as soon as I get back home I wash my hands and probably shortly after unpacking everything etc as this way when I do touch my face, which I am sure it's a habit for many of us, my risks of getting it should be minimal even if the stuff I had touched had COVID-19 on it. besides... you can just feel the grime/dirt etc on your hands after getting groceries and I like to have reasonably clean hands when I can. so it's just a habit for me to wash my hands after handing groceries etc.

but what I am wondering is say one grabs some groceries at a store with COVID-19 on it, are the backside of ones hand still reasonably safe? ; because if I got infected with COVID-19 that would probably be the way I would be most likely to catch it through touch. because I got a habit during certain times of the year where my nose is a bit runny, which I kind of assume is some sort of allergy, and since I don't always have access to Kleenex facial tissue to blow my nose, I find myself occasionally using the backside tip area (finger nail area) of my left and right hands middle finger (or occasionally knuckle area) to flick off the watery drainage (like the left side of my nose I use the backside of my right hands middle-finger and the right side of my nose ill use the backside of my left hands middle-finger) and the tiny amount(which is watery, not snot etc) still left on the backside tip of my middle finger I just wipe the excess on my pants. because if I was going to get it from hand to face contact, that would likely be my personal highest risk situation I suspect.

but anyways, the hands to face stuff aside for a moment... even if there is about a 1% chance say someone gets it in the air, it's not something that's going to spread like wild-fire through the air. so people getting it must not be cautious of where there hands have been and then touching their face and it somehow gets into their eyes/nose/mouth.

p.s. I should also note that what I quoted there with the doctor is pretty much a word-for-word copy as I omitted minor stuff like him saying 'um' and other minor things like that, so that it reads better. but it's pretty much a word-for-word copy. but for those who want to see it themselves I am sure you can look up that episode on YouTube as all of that text I typed up is all within the first 4 minutes or so of that episode. so no one can claim I am putting out false info etc since it's directly from a doctor on the front lines in New York which gives him more credibility since he's likely dealing with it more than most others doctors will.