Dr. Dave Hnida Explains The New Understanding About How COVID Spreads

From CBS Denver:

By Jesse Sarles

September 22, 2020

(CBS4) – Doctors have learned a lot about how coronavirus is transmitted over the past six months. The thinking has changed quite a bit. In the beginning getting COVID from touching surfaces was really a big concern, but that’s no longer as big of a big worry. CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida explained in an interview on CBSN Denver the biggest way coronavirus is being transmitted now.

“(Concern over) surfaces was just a huge thing back when this whole thing started,” he said. “If you think about those days, we were afraid to be touching surfaces. We were afraid to be touching our mail, opening packages, handling groceries. We were scrubbing down our fruits, our vegetables. And then we started to worry about could we get coronavirus from eating food. Would we get it from drinking water? And when we hit the summer, could we wind up getting it by going into a swimming pool?”

It turns out those things are not as significant as we once thought. Hnida says three things are now considered the main risk factors for transmission for catching COVID-19.

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