<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ugh. In all the ugh-ness. Not a pre-print, just an early release. Note: this does not rule out other transmission vectors. This is just one confirmed route.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Reddit link as there are some interesting discussion comments from technical people: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/gm7mua/infectious_sarscov2_in_feces_of_patient_with/" class="">https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/gm7mua/infectious_sarscov2_in_feces_of_patient_with/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Related, as I was earlier, just by happenstance, looking for fecal-oral discussion on this very topic and the subject of “toilet plume” came up:</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f9pbu3/could_this_be_a_bathroom_disease_with_inexpensive/" class="">https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f9pbu3/could_this_be_a_bathroom_disease_with_inexpensive/</a></span></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is one area where masks can/do help: reminding you not to touch your face.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Using soap (or hand sanitizer when you can’t use soap) breaks down the bilipid layer which is what inactivates the virus by breaking down its structure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the things I hadn’t known until astoundingly recently is that fecal-oral transmission is why polio was so contagious. So, essentially, what we have is polio 2.0 and bad sanitary habits and denialism.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div></body></html>