Coronavirus in the rain?

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Coronavirus in the rain?

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Can COVID-19 be transported in the air and fall in the rain, and subsequently infect people?

Viruses and bacteria generally are abundant in rain. From the study below ...
We quantified the wet and dry deposition of (free and attached) viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layer at the Observatory (OSN) and Veleta Peak (VSN) in Spain, and demonstrated that in each square meter, tens of millions of bacteria and billions of viruses are deposited each day.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-017-0042-4.epdf

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, one would expect that it will behave like any other virus in this regard.

Does this mean you could catch it this way? You'd be unlucky (I speculate), but given the highly infectious nature of the virus, it can't be ruled out.

What does the prospect of rain-borne COVID-19 have to do with collapse?

If the virus starts showing up mysteriously as its atmospheric presence grows, it may slow the return to a business-as-usual economy.
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