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Can you catch it this way

If someone sticks themself with a safety pin and an hour later someone else sticks themself with the same safety pin, could that be a way of contracting it. If so or not so then why?
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Why does it matter? You have at least 3-4 other reasons why it is not a risk.

But to answer your question there is no specific time frame, but it starts as soon as it is outside the body and it takes less then minutes.
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How long is a virus before its inactive
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No because it will not get deep enough, will not have enough blood and any virus would have been inactive by then.
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