Source:  NPR, 2/12/21


At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly transmit on frozen packages of food. "We know that the virus can persist and survive in conditions that are found in these cold and frozen environments," says Peter Ben Embarek, the food scientist who led the World Health Organization team that traveled to China to investigate the origin of the pandemic. "But we don't really understand if the virus can then transmit to humans."

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