Sanitizing surfaces, repeated hand washing and wearing gloves have become a big part of our daily routine in the age of COVID-19.
While touching infected surfaces has always been part of the messaging on how the coronavirus spreads, the Centers for Disease Control recently shifted its stance.
The CDC is now stressing that the virus spreads mainly through person-to-person contact and “does not spread easily” on contaminated surfaces.
LSU Health New Orleans infectious diseases expert Dr. Julio Figueroa said the agency is now focusing on what puts us at the greatest risk as we reopen the economy.
“To really emphasize kind of what we’re trying to do here in New Orleans and that is to emphasize masking and physical distancing to reduce transmission is much more important than the random surface that you could touch,” Dr. Figueroa said.
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