During the present pandemic, keeping your toilets, sinks, counters and showers as germ-free as possible is key to keeping you and your family healthy. Here's how to do it right.
With nearly all American kids out of school and large numbers of workers telecommuting, many houses are more crowded than usual.
And bathrooms are perhaps the one crucial point in the house where all humans -- and therefore microbes -- pass through. So during the present pandemic, keeping your toilets, sinks, counters and showers as germ-free as possible is key to keeping you and your family healthy.The novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, is known to live on hard surfaces for up to three days, according to data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Your bathroom has plenty of those.
But you may already have soap at home, and it could be easier to find in a supermarket. And the good news?"Many scientists argue it's actually a better alternative," Gupta said.There's scientific backing for this thinking: At a microscopic level, the novel coronavirus is surrounded by a"lipid envelope." Soap works on the virus by tearing through that layer of lipids that surrounds the proteins inside and breaking apart the virus.
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