Take your pick. Are these Trump appointees?

Billy Barr Mueller Report Memo.

So, yeah, pretty worthless.

The article says that "pillow and duvet covers" were contaminated, not that the PILLOWS were contaminated. Every hotel I have been in has washed the linens at the very least between guests. Since we have been told repeatedly that soap and water are more than adequate for killing the virus on our hands, it should be the same for hotel linens.

In addition, the students had been quarantined in the rooms so this was not a normal changeover from guest to guest, it was an enforced confinement with unspecified frequency of linen changes, if any.

I suspect that casual touching of surfaces is not a common way of transmitting the virus but prolonged (days in the same room with the same linens) and intimate (sleeping and washing for days) contact is more likely to provide enough viral load on the linens to be a concern.

agent of some sort in order to determine if the CV is present on each of the surfaces they tested...

I assume that there wouldn't be any antibodies either since they are positive for the CV (both), so they wouldn't use an antibody test for objects (unless they had the CV long enough for their bodies to develop antibodies too (still relatively low in numbers)).

Man, there is so much to learn, in so little time. And we have a fart head president who is worthless.

It's not funny anymore. Thanks for the heads up / additional information and be safe.

A pillow case would be an example of prolonged exposure. A pre-symptomatic person touching a box of cereal in a store would not be prolonged exposure.

And I've wondered about the people who wipe down every single object that comes into their house. I see that as completely unnecessary - and a waste of wipes.

The pattern seems to be prolonged exposure to people with the virus in enclosed places where the air is re-circulated. So, workplaces, nursing homes, public transportation, airplanes, cruise ships, bars, movie theaters, etc.

We're nearing the end of an addition to our house, so construction crews have been in & out since February. I'm 67, my husband, 68. but we have not been sick (other than sinusitis caused by pollen). My husband does most of the shopping, since he has to make trips into town to take a friend to doctor's appointments. He wears a homemade mask but no gloves and we've never wiped anything down.

For us, this has seemed to work - though neither of us is immune compromised, we both have health issues.

I do think people should take precautions that keep them comfortable. If they feel the need to isolate and wipe everything down, then that is their choice.

Which includes washing of all linens. From the link in the OP:

All the things we just don't think about need to be thought about.