Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Could you get coronavirus from the meat you eat?

Probably not, unless you aren't careful while preparing your meats because coronavirus can only live in your noses and sinuses and lungs and that's all. If you ate coronavirus because you were eating raw meat your saliva would kill your coronavirus and also your stomach digestive acids would kill it too. So, unless you touched infected meat with your hands and then shoved a finger up your nose before washing it after preparing raw meat you likely couldn't get coronavirus unless you stuck your fingers up your nose or into your eyes. Your nose and eyes are how people get coronavirus. So, protecting your eyes and nose from people breathing or talking or coughing on you is how you mostly prevent coronavirus. But, it might be possible to also get coronavirus from raw meat.

Another factor is since Tigers at the New York Zoo have gotten coronavirus it could be that pigs and steers (cows and bulls) could get coronavirus too and it might be able to pass to you this way. It's also possible that wild pigs and wild deer and elk and everything wild could also get coronavirus and you could get it from all these things if you don't wash your hands before you touch your eyes and nose.

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