We are all familiar with the potential of indoor air to spread SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. While we are also urged to decontaminated our hands as a preventive measure against the virus, studies in support of the effectiveness of hand hygiene against virus spread have been lacking.
Coronaviruses (CoV) are significant pathogens of humans and animals. Though they were first identified as the cause of respiratory infections in humans in 1965, the advent of a new CoV in the etiology of the 2003 pandemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory ...