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The CDC Now Says This Is the Only Time You Need to Disinfect Your Home
During the first few months of the COVID pandemic, when we weren’t sure how the virus traveled, experts urged us all to disinfect all high-touch surfaces in our homes frequently. But now, over a year into the pandemic, we’ve all learned a lot about COVID, including that the virus doesn’t tend to transmit via surfaces. With this information in mind, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its cleaning and disinfecting guidelines on April 5, and now, the agency says there’s only one instance in which disinfecting is necessary. To see the only situation when you need to disinfect your home, read on, and for more advice from the CDC, check out The CDC Says If You See This at a Restaurant, Don’t Go Inside. You only need to disinfect surfaces if someone with COVID has been to your home in the last 24 hours. On April 5, during a White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing, CDC Director…
