Right, I was thinking the same thing—not just a person, but medical personnel. So you’re going from patient 1, to someone’s hands, who is then directly touching patient 2, plausibly even patient 2′s mucous membranes. That’s much more direct than a typical fomite contact, which is more like face-hands-fomite-hands-face (or if you sneeze on a doorknob, face-fomite-hands-face.)
The surface being a person seems important in that example. Reduces the number of steps, if nothing else.
Right, I was thinking the same thing—not just a person, but medical personnel. So you’re going from patient 1, to someone’s hands, who is then directly touching patient 2, plausibly even patient 2′s mucous membranes. That’s much more direct than a typical fomite contact, which is more like face-hands-fomite-hands-face (or if you sneeze on a doorknob, face-fomite-hands-face.)