You may want to rethink your laundry routine.
in Montana have studied how long the new coronavirus can survive on cardboard, plastic, and steel, we don’t yet have that information about fabrics. “I suspect that you can find viability of the virus for several hours to maybe a day on clothes,” infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, MD, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Maryland, tells“It depends largely on the environmental conditions—temperature and humidity impact the growth of the virus.
In general, Dr. Adalja says he doesn’t believe that clothes act as a “major vehicle spread” for the new coronavirus. But it’s better to be safe than sorry, right? So what can you do to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus when it comes to your clothing? If nobody in your household has tested positive for the new coronavirus or is displaying any symptoms, you can clean your clothes as you usually do.
Items should be laundered per the manufacturer’s instructions and using the warmest possible appropriate setting. The CDC says it’s okay to wash dirty laundry from an ill person with other people’s garments, as washing clothes in a machine with detergent will kill the virus. But clothes hampers should be cleaned and disinfected after they’ve come into contact with the ill person’s items.
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