Too many people are ignoring one of the easiest ways to catch COVID-19, Dr. Fauci says

• By now, everybody knows that being in crowded situations is one of the things that easily facilitates coronavirus transmission -- and that you can protect yourself by social-distancing, in addition to wearing a face mask.
  
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, says too many people are still forgetting one of the easiest ways that the COVID-19 virus can be spread.
• The coronavirus can easily be passed from one person to another when they're merely talking to each other -- they don't have to be sneezing or coughing, or showing any signs of being sick.

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By now, everyone is familiar with and hopefully practicing the basics of good public health in the COVID-19 era, following guidelines that include wearing face masks, social-distancing, avoiding crowds, and regular hand-washing in order to curb the coronavirus' transmission. Most public places -- restaurants, retail stores, and the like -- now require visitors to wear face masks, and it's a good thing they do. A new study from researchers at the University of Tokyo found that face masks can block up to 90% of the coronavirus (though they don't eliminate the risk of contagion entirely).

The nation's leading infectious diseases expert, meanwhile, recently took the opportunity during a new interview to remind people that there are other super-easy ways for the coronavirus to be spread -- that it's not just the obvious droplets that are expelled when people cough or sneeze that you need to watch out for.

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