I Preached Where the Worship Leader Sang and Now I Have Covid

Some cautions about covid and church.

Where did I Contract COVID?

But where did I contract COVID? I was contacted by my home church—where I periodically preach—that I had been around someone the previous Sunday who had later tested positive for COVID.

As I thought back to that Sunday, I was never really around that person for more than a couple of minutes, and I especially wasn’t around them without my mask. If you know me, I’m pretty conscientious when it comes to germs and thus practicing good hygiene. [Now, I’m not like my boss and friend, Ed Stetzer. He’s on a whole different level.]

I also, thought back to other people I had been around a couple days before that Sunday and after that Sunday. I was around no one. So, I am fairly confident that I contracted COVID that Sunday morning. But I still didn’t know how. I maintained social distance the entire time. I wore my mask the entire time—other than when I preached. I didn’t touch anything; used hand-sanitizer throughout the morning.

So, how in the world did I contract it?

I started to do a little more digging into how one can contract COVID. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, here are three main ways people can contract COVID:

Droplets and Close Contact
Surface Transmission
Airborne Transmission

I also came across a couple of other articles and a video as I learned more about airborne transmission. According to Harvard Medical School,

“A person infected with coronavirus—even one with no symptoms—may emit aerosols when they talk or breathe [or sing]. Aerosols are infectious viral particles that can float or drift around in the air for up to three hours. Another person can breathe in these aerosols and become infected with ...