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By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com Nurses with the county’s Health Department conduct a mass testing event at the Lawsonville Fire Department on Monday. Two drive-thru lanes were set up on Monday in the bays of the fire department building. It was the first mass testing done in Lawsonville. There have now been 25 deaths in Stokes County due to COVID-19, the Health Department reports, and nearly 250 cases added in the past week alone, or more than 35 new positives a day. By any measure the numbers are sobering: As of Tuesday there have been 1,611 lab-confirmed positive cases...

VERIFY PROCESS Infectious diseases physician, Dr. Chris Ohl, heard Elliott's question and said it was the first time he had been asked about licking envelopes. He explained he does not believe anyone has studied COVID-19 on envelopes, but there has been research on similar items. "So, for other paper products or cardboard products, viral persistence is pretty short and doesn't last that long. The longest it can last is on other surfaces that are smooth, such as stainless steel, glass, etcetera. And, actually, most of the information we've gotten in the last three to six months is (the) virus ...