When bringing new items into your home, you'll want to be sure you're following the right order of operations
Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you feel like you’re improvising your COVID-19-disinfecting routine every time you get a package delivered or bring home your groceries — do I spray everything with Lysol? Leave the Amazon box on the curb for 24 hours? Trick my roommate into doing it? — you’re not alone.
Putting away groceries “Right from the very start, we made a decision that we would do the things that really have the most data behind them in supporting infection control,” says Paul Sax, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, of the approach he and his wife, a pediatrician, take to disinfecting. “When we come back from getting our groceries, we put the bags down, wash our hands, and put the groceries away,” he says.
As for cleaning vegetables and fruits, Manish Kumar, an adjunct assistant professor in the Public Health Leadership Program at the University of North Gillings School of Global Public Health, says a simple rinse under running water — like you’d do in normal circumstances — is fine. He also washes his hands and wipes down surfaces after putting away his groceries. Jade Flinn, a nurse educator in the biocontainment unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, goes one step farther.
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