{"id":42035,"date":"2020-05-13T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:53:40","slug":"three-tips-to-avoid-contracting-covid-19-from-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/three-tips-to-avoid-contracting-covid-19-from-surfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tips to Avoid Contracting COVID-19 from Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7101\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/emily-bennett-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/emily-sickbert-bennett\/\"><strong>Emily Sickbert-Bennett<\/strong><\/a>, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, shares three tips that will help people avoid contracting COVID-19 from surfaces. In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/3-tips-to-avoid-contracting-covid-19-from-surfaces\/\">UNC Health<\/a> article, Sickbert-Bennett says the hands are the mechanism that can bring any germs from surfaces to the face (and into the body). Therefore, hand washing is vital. She also recommends using household disinfectant often, and she encourages everyone to be thoughtful about what they&#8217;re bringing into the house and what it has touched. Read the UNC Health article <a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/3-tips-to-avoid-contracting-covid-19-from-surfaces\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, shares three tips that will help people avoid contracting COVID-19 from surfaces. In a new UNC Health article, Sickbert-Bennett says the hands are the mechanism that can bring any germs from surfaces to the face (and into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/three-tips-to-avoid-contracting-covid-19-from-surfaces\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Three Tips to Avoid Contracting COVID-19 from Surfaces\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":7101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Tips to Avoid Contracting COVID-19 from Surfaces | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/three-tips-to-avoid-contracting-covid-19-from-surfaces\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Tips to Avoid Contracting COVID-19 from Surfaces | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, shares three tips that will help people avoid contracting COVID-19 from surfaces. 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