Novel COVID-19 coronavirus is spread chiefly from person-to-person, hence minimizing the risk of exposure can help protect yourself and others, says a new study.

‘Keeping a barrier between you and other people is really important, so we don’t spread it further and faster.
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Before coming to Virginia Tech, Dr. Baker was an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of an elite corps that responds to national and international emergencies. At Virginia Tech, she teaches public health students how to analyze and investigate health problems. 




“Older people tend to have some of the worst outcomes from it, but it doesn’t mean that younger people don’t have it too,” she said. “Younger people tend to be the ones that go from place to place and then spread it somewhere else. So we want to make sure people know you can be asymptomatic with it – that means you don’t have symptoms- and then you are touching and doing everything else, but you didn’t know.”
Source-Newswise