Should you change and wash your clothes after visiting a grocery store?
Americans generally don’t need to fret about washing or changing their clothes more often than usual to avoid catching COVID-19, infectious-disease experts say — and some even warn that a preoccupation with laundry could come at the cost of taking more important measures like washing your hands. Still, there are some best practices to follow when you haul dirty clothes to the laundromat.
Change clothes after being in a crowded area in which people have touched your clothes, said Robert Amler, the dean of New York Medical College’s School of Health Sciences and Practice and a former chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Washing the clothes afterwards is a precaution, but may not be quite as necessary,” he said.
How coronavirus spreads COVID-19 is believed to spread primarily from person to person, between people who are within about six feet of each other and through droplets from a sick person’s cough or sneeze, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. public-health experts and policy makers have urged social distancing to reduce the disease’s spread.
If you do choose to launder more often... ”Hot water is better than cold,” Dumois said, as coronaviruses tend to be sensitive to higher temperatures. “The heat of a dryer also helps kill coronaviruses,” he added. The soap and water you usually use in your washing machine should be sufficient, said Andujar Vazquez.
“It’s perfectly safe for you to go back home with your regular clothes and just do what you have been doing pre-COVID,” she said.
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