Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe.

From the CDC

I understand washing hands, not touching your face, etc., but what does this mean exactly? I'm neither OCD or a germaphobe, never done this before. If there is some product(s) I need to buy and use for this purpose, someone please tell me so I can go to the market to learn they're sold out...LOL Thanks.

Soap is made from fat. Soap destroys the outer layer of virus and bacteria cells. Washing your hands is actually better than hand sanitizer if the sanitizer doesn't have at least 70% alcohol in it.

Soap is made from fat. Soap destroys the outer layer of virus and bacteria cells. Washing your hands is actually better than hand sanitizer if the sanitizer doesn't have at least 70% alcohol in it.

This. I can't believe how everyone's gone all gaga about hand sanitizer, bleach etc no health professionals anywhere are giving this advice, complete waste of time and not effective. If you're worried about sanitizing your house first off someone sick had to be there so you're closing the barn after the horse left. But carry on if you must and use soap and water.

got it, but that doesn't answer the question, i.e. sanitizing often touched surfaces.

got it, but that doesn't answer the question, i.e. sanitizing often touched surfaces.

Tough to use soap and water on the gas pump at quickie mart. I'm already carrying hand sanitizer with me all the time and using it after pumping gas, going into the store etc. before I get back in my car and contaminate the steering wheel or forget and touch my face.

got it, but that doesn't answer the question, i.e. sanitizing often touched surfaces.

Door knob, counter tops, light switches, faucet handles, stair railings, your nose, ass, crotch.
Stuff like that.

Don't sweat it. We're all like this guy:

Luke 12:19 And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."’
20 "But God said to him, `You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Use reasonable caution but when your time's up, it's up. Party on!

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Surfaces
Wear disposable gloves when cleaning and disinfecting surfaces. Gloves should be discarded after each cleaning. If reusable gloves are used, those gloves should be dedicated for cleaning and disinfection of surfaces for COVID-19 and should not be used for other purposes. Consult the manufacturer’s instructions for cleaning and disinfection products used. Clean hands immediately after gloves are removed.

If surfaces are dirty, they should be cleaned using a detergent or soap and water prior to disinfection.
For disinfection, diluted household bleach solutions, alcohol solutions with at least 70% alcohol, and most common EPA-registered household disinfectants should be effective.
Diluted household bleach solutions can be used if appropriate for the surface. Follow manufacturer’s instructions for application and proper ventilation. Check to ensure the product is not past its expiration date. Never mix household bleach with ammonia or any other cleanser. Unexpired household bleach will be effective against coronaviruses when properly diluted.

Prepare a bleach solution by mixing:
5 tablespoons (1/3rd cup) bleach per gallon of water or
4 teaspoons bleach per quart of water

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/home/cleaning-disinfection.html

Bleach should be fresh too.

It will ‘expire’ if you’ve had it a few months

I can't believe how everyone's gone all gaga about hand sanitizer, bleach etc
no health professionals anywhere are giving this advice, complete waste of time and not effective.

And your keyboard. Wipe and let air dry.

Use (Unscented) bleach accordion the instructions.

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And TELEPHONES! Anything you shove up into your face and breathe on. House phones, cell phones, smart phones, whatever. If you share a phone or borrow someone else's phone it's a great way to share germs.

Bleach should be fresh too.

It will ‘expire’ if you’ve had it a few months

Momma has spent most of her life working in food service. She has always kept a pump spray bottle
of diluted bleach water on the counter.

She's been doing it for the 37 years I have known her. It has kept Salmonella and E Coli at bay all this time.
It will keep COVID 19 away as well.

Momma has spent most of her life working in food service. She has always kept a pump spray bottle of diluted bleach water on the counter.

A bit of chicken blood on the counter, a few drops of beef drippings, she gives the counter a spray of bleach water and wipes it off with a paper towel.

She's been doing it for the 37 years I have known her. It has kept Salmonella and E Coli at bay all this time. It will keep COVID 19 away as well.

My question would be: what about the produce at the grocery. All those tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, potatoes, carrots, etc sitting on the shelves unwrapped. Handled by every passing shopper, sneezed upon by myriads of dirty little imps. If they are wrapped, they were picked and handled before being wrapped.

How do you sterilize raw living vegetables without tainting the veggies? How long can a viral agent live on living plant tissue? Is it time to start cooking every thing we eat?

got it, but that doesn't answer the question, i.e. sanitizing often touched surfaces.

pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on products labellled “Kills Human Coronavirus”,
but it doesnt mean the product is capable of dealing with the specific COVID 19.

Covid 19 is easier to kill than the common cold virus.

Just rinse in fresh water.

As to the question: Can bleach kill C 19?

Bleach destroys DNA chains. A virus is nothing more than a DNA or RNA molecule wrapped in a husk.

I aint puting bleach or any of that other stuff on what I touch the most. It just aint going to happen.

Momma has spent most of her life working in food service. She has always kept a pump spray bottle of diluted bleach water on the counter.

A bit of chicken blood on the counter, a few drops of beef drippings, she gives the counter a spray of bleach water and wipes it off with a paper towel.

She's been doing it for the 37 years I have known her. It has kept Salmonella and E Coli at bay all this time. It will keep COVID 19 away as well.

My question would be: what about the produce at the grocery. All those tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, potatoes, carrots, etc sitting on the shelves unwrapped. Handled by every passing shopper, sneezed upon by myriads of dirty little imps. If they are wrapped, they were picked and handled before being wrapped.

How do you sterilize raw living vegetables without tainting the veggies? How long can a viral agent live on living plant tissue? Is it time to start cooking every thing we eat?

How do you sterilize raw living vegetables without tainting the veggies?
How long can a viral agent live on living plant tissue? Is it time to start cooking every thing we eat?

MIT Technology Review

Biotechnology

Here’s how long the coronavirus can live in the air and on packages
The virus prefers steel and plastic, materials commonly found in hospitals and homes.

by Antonio Regalado
Mar 11, 2020

The contagious coronavirus can survive on a cardboard delivery box for at least a day and lives even longer on steel and plastic.

A big question in the outbreak of Covid-19, which has already infected more than 110,000, is how the germ that causes it moves so easily between people. Although many viruses and germs can survive on ordinary objects, zeroing in on precisely how the new coronavirus does it could help stem the epidemic.

To help find an answer, US researchers tried spritzing the virus on seven materials commonly found in homes and hospitals, to see how long it remained infectious.

The germ survived longest on plastic and stainless steel, where it clung for as long as three days, according to Vincent Munster and a team at the National Institutes of Health virology laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, who describe their experiments in a new preprint.
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That suggests hospital equipment is a potential vector for disease, as are strap-hanger poles on subways.

So far, however, there is no definitive proof the virus is actually spread via inanimate objects. “We don’t know if you can pick up Covid-19 from contaminated surfaces or inanimate objects at this point. That’s the bottom line,” says Marilyn Roberts, a microbiologist at the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Doctors testing patients know that the virus is present in large amounts in people’s upper respiratory tract, making it likely that it gets spread when they cough or sneeze, spraying tiny droplets and aerosols into the air and onto surfaces.

“Virus stability in air and on surfaces may directly affect virus transmission, as virus particles need to remain viable long enough after being expelled from the host to be taken up by a novel host,” Munster and his team write.

Munster and his coworkers say spreading via the air likely explains “super spreader” events like one that appears to have occurred in Boston, where more than 70 people are believed to have been infected at a conference held by the biotechnology company Biogen.

The scientists looked at how long the virus lived on different materials, and also as it swirled in an air chamber. After waiting a few hours or days, they wiped the surfaces and checked to see if they could still infect cells in a petri dish.

Materials the virus liked best were stainless steel and plastic, where infectious germs could still be collected after three days and might endure quite a bit longer. It liked copper least: the virus was gone after just four hours. Swished around in the air chamber, the germs remained for about three hours.

It will take detailed epidemiological studies to find out for sure exactly how the virus spreads, but the new lab findings indicate it can at least cling to Amazon packages or plastic cell-phone cases.

With some viruses, like influenza, touching a surface can sweep up millions of viral particles in just a few seconds. Other studies show that people touch their faces more than 20 times every hour. Cold temperature and low humidity let viruses live even longer.

Health authorities are recommending that people wash their hands frequently and use alcohol-based cleansers to disinfect surfaces. It’s known that coronaviruses are fairly easy to kill; rubbing alcohol and diluted hydrogen peroxide are among the effective weapons.

In a February review of what’s already known about this type of virus, German researchers said that within a minute of cleaning a surface, a million viral particles can be reduced to 100, likely reducing the risk of infection.

The NIH researchers compared the new virus with SARS and found that the two germs stuck around for similar lengths of time. SARS caused an outbreak in 2003 but was not so easily transmitted, which means other factors play a role in why Covid-19 is spreading faster.

While those reasons aren’t fully understood, the NIH researchers speculate that people with the new coronavirus could be shedding it even if they don’t have symptoms or that that it takes less of the virus for a person to become infected, a metric known as the “infectious dose.”

The researchers say they are now looking at how long the virus lasts in snot, spit, and fecal matter, and under what temperatures and humidity levels.

— with reporting by Mike Orcutt

Yes, that is what we have always done. But we all know fresh water will not kill a virus. We have been told C 19 can live for several days on hard surfaces. How long can it live on moist living tissues?

As to the question: Can bleach kill C 19?

Bleach destroys DNA chains. A virus is nothing more than a DNA or RNA molecule wrapped in a husk.

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Federal regulations (21 CFR Part 173).
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=173&showFR=1&subpartNode=21:3.0.1.1.4.4

permit the use of sodium hypochlorite (chlorine bleach) in washing raw produce (for salmonella)
The concentration of sanitizer in the wash water must not exceed 2000 ppm hypochlorite.
The produce must be rinsed with potable water following the chlorine treatment
Your mom worked in food service for 37 years , but couldnt tell you that bleach works
on fruit/veg?

as far as washing hands, I saw someone say on TV that the soap does not need to be anti-bacterial, and that it is not necessary to use hot water, in fact a lot of hot water will have an adverse effect on skin.

I thought soap and water were just a really good mechanical way of flushing away bacteria, with the soap removing any oils and grease that the bacteria might stick to. A bit like flushing out a rifle barrel with water after using corrosive primed ammo.

Can you cite which pharmaceutical co. or scientific finding has confirmed that bleach will kill
the current strain of COVID 19..?.....( there are commercial products verified to work against
other human coronaviruses,but we are not talking about such.)

should also be noted salmonella and E Coli are bacteria, while covid 19 is a virus.