>> Hello, again everybody. I'm Abby Carlson. I'm an infectious diseases doctor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention here in Atlanta, Georgia, and you may have been watching these videos in our Inside Infection Control series for a little while. If so, thank you very much. If not, welcome. We're going to take a minute to summarize some of the things that we have covered so far. In this series, we've focused on how germs spread, and specifically, and how this virus, SARS CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, gets from person to person. The main way SARS CoV-2 spreads is by respiratory droplets. That's when somebody who's infected breathes out or coughs or talks, and the water in their breath, those little, tiny droplets of water that are carrying virus particles, they reach a person who's close by. Then those droplets are breathed in, or land on the eyes, and this can happen whether the infected person knows they're infected or not. Okay, then the virus can also get around when droplets carrying them get on surfaces and then on to your hands. Droplets can fall onto things through a cough or a sneeze, or again, just from breathing out your breath. They could also be spread around through your hands, if you touch your nose or your mouth, and you're infected, and then, you touch something without cleaning your hands, the virus can get onto that thing. Everywhere your hands can go, the virus can go too, from keyboards to patient beds to elevator buttons. And then, the virus can go from those surfaces and get picked up by someone else on their hands and make its way onto their eyes, nose, or mouth, eventually infecting them and making them sick. So, now that we've covered the ways that germs spread in a healthcare setting, all of this information will come in handy in the next series of videos. We're going to start talking about the things that we do for infection control to keep germs from spreading. Things like screening patients and staff or how we use different pieces a personal protective equipment and how they work, and we're going to talk about how some aspects of SARS CoV-2 have made infection control especially challenging. Meanwhile, thank you for joining us. As always, please be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, and check us out on website at CDC.gov/ProjectFirstLine. Thank you for watching and for sharing. We'll see you next episode.