Novel role of plastic wrap in COVID-19

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is spreading across the world rapidly and poses unprecedented challenges to health care systems. It is transmitted primarily by the droplet route, although surface contact may play an important role as well.1 Although people are aware of universal mask wearing to reduce respiratory droplet transmission, contact transmission, particularly indirectly, is a danger that is often overlooked. There are some sources of nonnegligible routes for indirect contact in hospitals, such as keyboards and elevator buttons often used daily by frontline health care workers.