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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p>Fellow Parishioners,<o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mql_sars-cov-2_-_cleared_for_public_release_20200908.pdf">https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mql_sars-cov-2_-_cleared_for_public_release_20200908.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p>I opined on friday that meat and meat packaging, frozen or otherwise, was a possible source of Covid19 and cited as evidence this entry from the dhs masterlist of covid 19 research: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=quotation>•SARS-CoV-2 is susceptible to heat treatment (70°C) but can persist for at least two weeks at refrigerated temperatures (4°C).<span style='font-size:7.5pt'>122, 497</span> SARS-CoV-2 maintains infectivity for at least 21 days when experimentally inoculated on frozen foods and stored below -20<span style='font-size:7.5pt'>o</span>C.<span style='font-size:7.5pt'>193<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=quotation><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=quotation style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>A new entry in the list for this Thursday (new entries in <span style='color:#4472C4'>blue</span>) suggests otherwise: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=quotation style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=quotation>The International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF) believes that it is highly unlikely that ingestion of SARS-CoV-2 will result in illness; there is no documented evidence that food, food packaging, or food handling is a significant source of COVID-19 infections.27<o:p></o:p></p><p class=quotation><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=quotation style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>If you read the two entries together, they don’t rule out the possibility of getting the disease by hand to mouth contamination after handling uncooked meat or its wrappings. So, washing hands thoroughly after handling uncooked meat is still probably wise. But most of you probably do that any way. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=quotation style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=quotation style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>Nick <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>