{"id":42183,"date":"2020-05-08T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=42183"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:54:11","slug":"weber-talks-with-new-york-times-about-disinfectants-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/weber-talks-with-new-york-times-about-disinfectants-for-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber Talks With New York Times About Disinfectants For COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5944\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 277px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber-267x300.jpeg\" alt=\"David Weber, MD, MPH\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber-267x300.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber-301x338.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/david-j-weber.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">David Weber, MD, MPH<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-weber\/\"><strong>David Weber<\/strong><\/a>, MD, MPH, medical director of hospital epidemiology (infection prevention), discussed household cleaners and disinfectants for the coronavirus in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/06\/well\/live\/coronavirus-cleaning-cleaners-disinfectants-home.html?fbclid=IwAR3Q5aycWbJybR-INDlx7zjLoBqj2OzNDeyU2b23hxU6ZJYFb49jhKBv4ds\">New York Times<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a germicide to work, it has to touch the germs,\u201d Weber said.\u00a0 \u201cIf you have a layer of grime, the dirt can protect the bacteria. Cleaning has to precede disinfection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/06\/well\/live\/coronavirus-cleaning-cleaners-disinfectants-home.html?fbclid=IwAR3Q5aycWbJybR-INDlx7zjLoBqj2OzNDeyU2b23hxU6ZJYFb49jhKBv4ds\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of hospital epidemiology (infection prevention), discussed household cleaners and disinfectants for the coronavirus in a New York Times article. \u201cFor a germicide to work, it has to touch the germs,\u201d Weber said.\u00a0 \u201cIf you have a layer of grime, the dirt can protect the bacteria. Cleaning has to precede &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/weber-talks-with-new-york-times-about-disinfectants-for-covid\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Weber Talks With New York Times About Disinfectants For COVID\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":5944,"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-42183","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>Weber Talks With New York Times About Disinfectants For COVID | 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\/weber-talks-with-new-york-times-about-disinfectants-for-covid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weber Talks With New York Times About Disinfectants For COVID | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of hospital epidemiology (infection prevention), discussed household cleaners and disinfectants for the coronavirus in a New York Times article. \u201cFor a germicide to work, it has to touch the germs,\u201d Weber said.\u00a0 \u201cIf you have a layer of grime, the dirt can protect the bacteria. 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