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Can covid infect you from the soles of your shoes?
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Small chance: Surface contamination is possible but this is not a common form of transmission. Soles of shoes may pick up SARs-CoV-2 from floor in areas where there is frequent doffing of contaminated PPE.
Answered 6/14/2020
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