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A member asked:
If you sneeze on your arms when you sneeze are you reintroducing the infection back in to your system?
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Not infecting others: This is to avoid infection others. Sneezing into your hands will leave the germs on anything you touch. Since you are the germ carrier you cannot be reinfected by that same germ.
Answered 3/22/2020
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