02 Aug 2022
Setting it Straight: Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 and Long COVID 3: The inside/outside of us
We’re all very aware that our experience of COVID-19 begins when we breathe in finely dispersed droplets of somebody else’s coughed or sneezed out mucous containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or when such material is conveyed to our nasopharyngeal area (or possibly eyes) via hand-to-face contact (#11, #82). Health care workers helping very sick patients are also at high risk of an ‘eye splash’, which is why they sport a similar type of face shields that welders wear.