COVID-19 and food.

[Kablooie]

Does anyone know if the virus is on food, can it survive digestive system and infect you?

[applegrove]

1. I know what comes out the other end can infect you. So be carefull if you

are cleaning up after someone who is infected. Then again i just heard it on the news. Go to John's Hopkins website or somewhere else to get details like that.

I bought a whole bunch of Ensure (meal replacement shake) for myself and my dad who is in a nursing home. I will try to get my brother to get some too. That way if one gets housebound you can get sustenance without ordering food in that is made by somebody who could be sick. I also have lots of broth mix. I'm beginning to get worried for all my loved ones.

[pat_k]

2. Perhaps the answer is somewhere in this...

The digestive system is a potential route of 2019-nCov infection: a bioinformatics 2 analysis based on single-cell transcriptomes

Or perhaps not. Scanned it. Don't understand a bit of it, but the title is suggestive.

[dewsgirl]

3. Would you please tell me the name of the title? I think it's

a PDF and I can barely see it on this device.

[pat_k]

4. The title is "The digestive system is a potential route of 2019-nCov infection..."

The title is:

The digestive system is a potential route of 2019-nCov infection: a bioinformatics 2 analysis based on single-cell transcriptomes

[dewsgirl]

5. Thank you so much.

[hlthe2b]

8. Calm, please. Study onlyshows that the receptors (bits on cells that allow virus to attach)

also occur in stomach cells--frankly as would be expected, given it is a Coronavirus and many of those are actually enteric viruses (e.g., like the common one that affects dogs ONLY and is vaccine-preventable).

There is a very long way to go from saying this lab study of cells translates in real life to ingestion being a high-risk source for infection and yes, it does not take into account competing effects of stomach acids or the dose needed for such infection (which presumedly would be much higher) nor the impacts of heat/cooking of potentially contaminated food, which would render it inactive. As a primary respiratory virus, your eye, nose, and mouth (mucus membranes) and their cells are exposed, "waiting" for the virus to come into contact and attach. To suggest that the same risk or even a significant applies in the stomach is much less likely with this particular virus.

That said, we know virus is shed in stool giving us an even bigger reason to HANDWASH regularly.

[pat_k]

9. Thanks for the interpretation! (nt)

[tblue37]

6. It was originally an infection of the digestive system in bats, according to an

article I read a week or two ago, so I'd be surprised if it couldn't infect humans that way, too.

[beachbumbob]

7. our knowledge of ccovid-19 is very limited as chinese held back and likely still holding back info

and we and the world have been slow in response. The one thing I know, this is way more dangerous then what we are being told and our public officials lack the courage to make the hard decisions as they see everything from a $$$$ and not the public's welfare