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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3515066, member: 1414"]
It's a good question.  It's clear it can be present [URL='https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus-resource-center']on surfaces for up to 72 hours[/URL].

Anecdotal thoughts from a Dr. I know a little bit is that they are speculating that the asymptomatic and mild cases (around 80% of cases are mild) come from a minor exposure, such as you might get from a surface.  Severe cases may come from more direct exposure to more of the virus from droplets (cough, sneeze, kissing etc.).  They call this the viral load.  
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238819-does-a-high-viral-load-or-infectious-dose-make-covid-19-worse/[/URL]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sciencealert.com/does-the-amount-of-covid-19-virus-you-are-exposed-to-determine-how-sick-you-ll-get[/URL]

"It is early days, but if the initial amount of virus a person is infected by doesn’t correlate with the severity of disease symptoms, this would mark covid-19 out as different from influenza, MERS and SARS."  I'm betting that it is not different.
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