Hantavirus is less infectious than SARS-CoV-2 was during the 2019–2020 COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Short Version
The evidence strongly supports the comparison in ordinary public-health terms. SARS-CoV-2 spread efficiently between humans during the 2019-2020 outbreak, while hantavirus infections are usually rodent-to-human and rarely spread person-to-person. Limited Andes virus exceptions do not overturn the broader conclusion.
Caveats
The comparison is most valid when 'infectious' means human-to-human transmissibility, not every possible route of exposure.
Most hantavirus cases come from contact with infected rodent urine, droppings, or saliva, so it is not a like-for-like respiratory spread comparison.
Andes virus is a documented but uncommon exception with limited person-to-person transmission in certain settings.