Posted on 04/22/2021 5:47:42 PM PDT by lightman
Obsessively cleaning surfaces to get rid of COVID-19 germs is typically unnecessary “hygiene theater” and may go more harm than good by contributing to a false sense of security, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
“CDC determined that the risk of surface transmission is low, and secondary to the primary routes of virus transmission through direct contact droplets and aerosols,” Vincent Hill, Chief of the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, told CNN during a CDC-sponsored telephone briefing.
Thorough disinfecting surfaces is appropriate when someone with coronavirus has been in the space during the past 24 hours, Hill said.
But obsessive cleaning can have dangerous consequences since it may have minimal impact on viral transmission and contributes to “hygiene theater,” Hill said, according to CNN.
“Putting on a show” to clean and disinfect “may be used to give people a sense of security that they are being protected from the virus, but this may be a false sense of security, if other prevention measures like wearing masks, physical distancing, and hand hygiene are not being consistently performed,” Hill said.
The briefing followed a CDC paper released two weeks ago that found the risk of contracting the virus from touching a contaminated surface is generally less than 1 in 10,000, “which means that each contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection,” the CDC paper says.
Essentially, the paper concludes most people get COVID-19 by breathing contaminated air vs. touching a contaminated surface.
“The principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is through exposure to respiratory droplets carrying infectious virus,” the briefing paper says. “It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low.”
Handing washing is still recommended: “Case reports indicate that SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted between people by touching surfaces an ill person has recently coughed or sneezed on, and then directly touching the mouth, nose, or eyes. Hand hygiene is a barrier to fomite transmission and has been associated with lower risk of infection.”
The CDC has updated its COVID-related cleaning recommendations to suggest that a daily cleaning is fine, and common spaces and contact points should be cleaned and disinfected if someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 has been in the space during that past 24 hours.
Disinfecting also may also be appropriate when there is a high transmission of COVID-19 in your community, a low number of people wearing mask and/or infrequent hand hygiene.
Completely overlooking fecal-oral transmission.
Next up, you’re washing your hands too much-more false sense of security and a whole lot of wasted water (the next human induced climate isse-water shortage).
this is insane - and means they want to spread the disease.
more royalties for CDC and FauXi, of course.
I’ve always wondered where that “wasted” water actually went?
It’s like a rotation. This week it’s wiping surfaces that doesn’t work, but everything else does. Until next week.
It’s like a rotation. This week it’s wiping surfaces that doesn’t work, but everything else does. Until next week.
Well, I try my best to avoid eating feces.
The one decent thing to come out of this mess is increased public cleanliness and now it’s too much? What a load.
It is a virus ....it spreads....it is all bs masks do not work....it still spreads...
We were not to touch anything now we can touch everything ...BS all
bookmark
I’m not touching this!
Generally speaking, The do not know shit!
I shook hands with 2 separate potential clients y.esterday. They offered their hands. It was so refreshing
Must be a great gig...constantly change your mind, hardly ever be right, screw with peoples’ lives and livelihoods-—AND GET PAID FOR IT!
I continue to be amazed by the stupidity of people. Do they not think for themselves?
That’s why they crave CDC “guidance”...and follow it slavishly.
“...screw with peoples’ lives and livelihoods-... .”
I saw a potential client today who had to sell/close his business due to covid.
This the reason antibiotic soaps were outlawed earlier this century. The overuse of antibiotics was causing more serious bacterial infections to be common.
There is no problem or emergency when a kid ingest some dirt in the course of the day.
"Rub some dirt on it, walk it off."
“slavishly”
What a great word to use!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.