To confirm the social-distance rule: If cough droplets are 0.1 mm and ejected at 10 m/s, a quick Stokes law calculation shows that they travel about 2m laterally and settle in about 1s. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUTjWTdWkAIQ73D?format=jpg … (chart courtesy of @DrPascalMeier).
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That can be via fomites, though. Touch your face, pick up a virus, deposit it on surface. Victim reverses the process.
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But while it's not known (that I know of anyway) to be the case for SARS-CoV-2, for influenza, the answer appears to be "yes":https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320690
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