COVID-19: Are You Cleaning Your Home Correctly?

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Welcome back! I hope you spent your spring breaks similarly to how I spent mine: mostly inside, but with my mask on when I went out, because there’s still a pandemic going on.

The CDC recently shared encouraging information: unless someone in your household is sick, cleaning your home with regular household cleaners is enough to remove the virus that causes COVID-19. This may come as a surprise to those of you that have been scrubbing your home and everything you bring into it for the past year, but it’s very consistent with available information about the virus. Read on for an explanation.

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