{"id":974,"date":"2021-07-22T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=974"},"modified":"2021-07-22T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:05:21","slug":"how-covid-19-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: CDC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">COVID-19 spreads when an infected person breathes out droplets and very small particles that contain the virus.&nbsp;These droplets and particles can be breathed in by other people&nbsp;or&nbsp;land on their eyes, noses, or mouth.&nbsp;In some circumstances,&nbsp;they may&nbsp;contaminate surfaces they touch.&nbsp;People who are closer than 6 feet from the infected person are most likely to get infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">COVID-19 is spread in three main ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><li>Breathing in air when close to an infected person who is exhaling small droplets and particles that contain the virus.<\/li><li>Having these small droplets and particles that contain virus land on the eyes, nose, or mouth, especially through splashes and sprays like a cough or sneeze.<\/li><li>Touching eyes, nose, or mouth with hands that have the virus on them.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/how-covid-spreads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/how-covid-spreads.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: CDC COVID-19 spreads when an infected person breathes out droplets and very small particles that contain the virus.&nbsp;These droplets and particles can be breathed in by other people&nbsp;or&nbsp;land on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,205,590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-health-wellness-covid-19","category-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}