Ask HN: Does Covid-19 spread in a bacteria culture?

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Currently published mode of transmission is still officially via contact with infected or getting the virus into airways and face.

There are now reports that there could be faecal transmission too, does this mean that COVID-19 spreads via bacteria?

Anyone have research links? (I have searched for hours now, yielding nothing much).

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You should read how influenca virus infections work. The virus doesn't spread via bacteria. It's the weakened/stressed human immune system (by the virus) which evventually suffers from bacteria which live in and around us all the time.

Thanks for responding - appreciate it.

Please forgive my repeat: does COVID-19 attack bacteria (does it replicate in bacteria)?

I cannot tell without doing the research on my own. You might want to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus as a starting point for the broader group of corona viriae or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage for the general phenomena of viruses attacking bacteria. My gut feeling is that corona viruses are not phages.

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