Yes and no. It’s complicated.
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, we didn’t know what we were up against. We suspected that touching a surface that had been touched by an infected person might transmit the disease to us. We thought that Covid-19 was like the flu. Things have turned out differently.
- Touching surfaces that an infected person has touched has not turned out to be a major mode of transmission.
- Covid-19 is like the flu in that both diseases are caused by viruses, but the similarity ends there.