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FDA Changes View on Surface Contamination

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In case you haven't heard yet, in a surprise move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated surface contact is not the main way the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads.

The information caused confusion because agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said weeks earlier the virus could live up to 24 hours on cardboard surfaces and as long as three days on other materials. Store staff and members of the public began a campaign of sanitizing surfaces with bleach.

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