Experts hold forth on whether your self-isolation scruff could carry COVID-19.
It’s a question that has sprouted up amid the coronavirus pandemic, partially thanks to anfrom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that features guidelines for facial hair in extreme detail.
“I can imagine that maybe the beard could collect a little bit of spit or something,” he said. But then a person they might infect “would have to be in really close contact, and that would make them at risk from all the other mechanisms.” . He told the outlet that though “theoretically” coronavirus could perhaps be transmitted to a person or someone else through a beard, he knows of “no science to support what I’ve just said.”, a professor in the department of emergency health services at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, told HuffPost. Such studies mainly focus on bacteria, though, and not something like this virus.versus shaved areas in men,” she said.
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