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| adjl 01/05/23 6:49:26 PM #47: | Cacciato posted... Glad to know if Im injected with COVID I wont get COVID since it was only designed to infect through the lungs. Fuckin Christ. Potentially, yeah. A pathogen that grows on mucus membranes isn't necessarily going to be able to grow in the blood, and it's not like the blood is just going to transport it to its preferred site. I wouldn't recommend trying it, for obvious reasons, but it's completely plausible that it would work that way. Yellow posted... In general, respiratory viruses are not known to be transmitted by blood transfusion, and there have been no reported cases of transfusion-transmitted coronavirus worldwide. It's worth noting that all that means is that receiving a blood transfusion from a Covid-positive donor won't infect the recipient with Covid. Actually injecting Covid into the bloodstream is a different sort of exposure than what those findings address. Yellow posted... At the start of the pandemic we made a big deal out of washing our hands to stop covid, but since then we've learned more about it. That wasn't because there were concerns about it infecting people through their skin. It was because there were concerns about transferring it to the respiratory system from people's hands, trough the mouth, nose, or eyes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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