{"id":435762,"date":"2021-04-20T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435762"},"modified":"2021-04-20T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:06:17","slug":"cdc-updates-guidelines-on-disinfecting-surfaces-says-not-always-necessary-and-can-be-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-updates-guidelines-on-disinfecting-surfaces-says-not-always-necessary-and-can-be-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Updates Guidelines On Disinfecting Surfaces, Says Not Always Necessary And Can Be Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-updates-guidelines-on-disinfecting-surfaces-says-not-always-necessary-and-can-be-dangerous%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2983.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said that the risk of COVID-19 being transmitted over surfaces is low, and at times, cleaning surfaces might not be as necessary as previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Hill, Chief of the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch at the CDC, discussed cleaning surfaces during a CDC-sponsored telephone briefing reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/19\/health\/cdc-covid-guidelines-cleaning\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. Hill said, \u201cCDC determined that the risk of surface transmission is low, and secondary to the primary routes of virus transmission through direct contact droplets and aerosols.\u201d Hill added that the risk of virus transmission when indoors is low, but when outdoors it is even lower, saying that the sun and other factors can kill viruses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn most situations, cleaning surfaces using soap or detergent, and not disinfecting, is enough to reduce the already low risk of virus transmission through surfaces,\u201d Hill said. \u201cDisinfecting surfaces is typically not necessary, unless a sick person or someone positive for Covid-19 has been in the home within the last 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the CDC updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/more\/science-and-research\/surface-transmission.html\">guidelines<\/a> on disinfecting surfaces, saying, \u201cThe 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. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hill said that people should focus on cleaning surfaces that have higher contact, like light switches and doorknobs. He also said that lots of disinfecting and cleaning might have a low impact on the transmission of COVID-19 and add to \u201chygiene theater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hill said, \u201cPutting on a show\u201d to disinfect and clean \u201cmay 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt also could make people feel less need to engage in these other important prevention measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC stated that while cleaning surfaces might be helpful to lower the risk of infection transmission within households, \u201cthere is little scientific support for routine use of disinfectants in community settings, whether indoor or outdoor, to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission from fomites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC said that when data from surface survival and real-world transmission factors are taken into account, \u201cthe risk of fomite [or surface] transmission after a person with COVID-19 has been in an indoor space is minor after 3 days (72 hours), regardless of when it was last cleaned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As more and more people attempted to disinfect surfaces in order to protect themselves from the coronavirus over the past year, the CDC found that this practice can also be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic inquiries indicate that some people may purposely drink, inhale, or spray their skin with disinfectants, without understanding that use of disinfectants in this way can cause serious harm to their bodies,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, \u201cThere have been increases in poisonings and injuries from unsafe use of cleaners and disinfectants since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some types of disinfection applications, particularly those including fogging or misting, are neither safe nor effective for inactivating the virus unless properly used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Routine cleaning is helpful in order to \u201creduce virus levels on surfaces,\u201d according to the agency. The CDC, however, stresses that while infection can happen through contact with surfaces, the main way that COVID-19 spreads is through \u201cexposure to respiratory droplets carrying infectious virus.\u201d It also suggests that people disinfect indoor community areas if there is a known or suspected case of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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