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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 12
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    Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Farooq Butt

    What happens if you eat this? Can the virus be transmitted this way?https://twitter.com/fmbutt/status/1293769473514713089 …

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    Farooq Butt @fmbutt
    Meat packing is turning out to be a seriously conducive environment for SARS-CoV-2... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/chinese-city-says-chicken-wings-from-brazil-test-positive …
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      2. c0nc0rdance‏ @c0nc0rdance Aug 12
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        Short answer is no, especially if the meat is cooked, which it always always always should be.

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      3. Héder‏ @ehsaanehmad Aug 12
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        But touching it without SOPs before cooking it is the point here

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      1. Gregory Herczeg‏ @GregHerczeg Aug 12
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        If you eat raw chicken wings, then yes. But the people handling the chicken wings is exposed. Not a problem for the US, cause yolo, but this is on top of salmon and shrimp and a major problem for final eradication of covid in China.

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      1. christina d'ache‏ @scrivenix Aug 12
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        probably not. it lives on some surfaces (esp smooth ones like plastic/metal), & probably lives longer in refrigerated environments, but breaks down outside the body to the point of not being very infectious quickly. factories are bad bc loud, ppl have to yell, & tightly packed in

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      1. Alan Martin‏ @epithetos Aug 12
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        Maybe if you're in the habit of washing your meat? It can increase the chance of cross contamination.

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      2. Divia Eden‏ @diviacaroline Aug 12
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        My best guess is that it’s very unusual to contract respiratory viruses orally. RSV transmission seems pretty finite based iirc, but via nose and eyes, not mouth. https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1251605923023339520?s=21 …https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1251605923023339520 …

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        Divia Eden @diviacaroline
        Study finds people often get RSV if you put it in eyes of nose, but not mouth. Stuff about viral load and infectiousness too! “Infections after the highest inoculum were characterized by earlier and greater shedding.” https://iai.asm.org/content/33/3/779?ijkey=2928f3b4fb40f49dc1f5f8bd9e2f3d4715e8653d&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha … https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1251228088387567617?s=20 … https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1251228088387567617 …
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      3. Divia Eden‏ @diviacaroline Aug 12
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        Source that RSV is mostly transmitted from touch and not breathing. Covid seems to be less like that, so presumably even less risk from eating it.https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1251615279924178944?s=21 …

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        More on RSV: “Five of the 7 cuddlers, 4 of 10 touchers and none of 14 sitters developed RSV infection.” Nurses they sat next to babies with RSV for hours didn’t get it. Ones who touched the babies or the stuff they had been touching did. https://pdfs.journals.lww.com/pidj/2000/10001/Transmission_of_viral_respiratory_infections_in.2.pdf?token=method|ExpireAbsolute;source|Journals;ttl|1587243289354;payload|mY8D3u1TCCsNvP5E421JYK6N6XICDamxByyYpaNzk7FKjTaa1Yz22MivkHZqjGP4kdS2v0J76WGAnHACH69s21Csk0OpQi3YbjEMdSoz2UhVybFqQxA7lKwSUlA502zQZr96TQRwhVlocEp/sJ586aVbcBFlltKNKo+tbuMfL73hiPqJliudqs17cHeLcLbV/CqjlP3IO0jGHlHQtJWcICDdAyGJMnpi6RlbEJaRheGeh5z5uvqz3FLHgPKVXJzdScMiCXBYh75pHsnZjrzk6HS2761LpqjV3FX6IV6ipY8=;hash|nZ5+LiKK6fH/uECd9M6c1A== …
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      1. John Bissell‏ @bysl Aug 13
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        The fecal-oral transmission route for covid was identified relatively early, and I have heard of it the route being taken back off the table. So yes, eating it would transmit it.

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