CDC Says Coronavirus CAN Travel On Shoes!!!
 

For those of us to have to go out and are scared we might transfer coronavirus to our shoes, our worries have been confirmed by the CDC. Your family and pets could be affected by what's on your shoes and brought right into your house, no matter your face-mask or gloves, hand washing.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/12/the-co...w-study-shows/

If this story is true and the virus left on shoes is still in a contageious state - article by the NY Post doesn't mention that part, this is good information to know. I've worn washable clogs for 20 years and can throw them right into the washing machine after comng in from my porch to collect packages, deliveries brought by others wearing shoes, masks and gloves. So being physically quarantined personally and quaratining/disinfecting our packagies, mail, whatever, doesn't necessarily keep up as safe as we might have thought if we step where anothe person or animal paw or bird feet mght have stepped.

Also, if this article is true, the virus travels more than twice the distance of durrent social distancing suggestions.

Awful to think of ICU workers and medical doctors carrying the virus right out of ICU on the soles of their shoes, down the hospital halls, to another patient's room, their car mats and home.

I'm going to try to find the study on the CDC website and post it here.

So we could be bringing virus in our our shoes to our floors, our little Yorkies and other pets, famlies' feet to our very beds, etc.

I just spoke with a registered nurse. She said this virus can live on the soles of shoes for 4 days as most soles are made out of plastic, she suggested taking them off before coming in the house, putting them in a plastic bag and leave them outside. She also said any metal or steel, the virus lives the longest on them, she didn't say how long tho. So if your vehicles have exterior metal door handles and you have been parked in a public parking lot wipe off the handles with a spray disinfectant before opening he car door.

Ut oh.

It’s very unlikely it would stay on your shoes. Let me give an example if my mom gets it on her shoe at the grocery store she has to walk across the parking lot to the car, she is in the car at least 15 to 20 minutes meaning her shoe had rubbed on the car rug, then at home she has to walk on the drive way from the car to the garage where she walks across an outdoor rug before climbing a few steps across an inside deck and then over another outdoor rug then inside the house. There is no way it’s going to still be there when she gets into the house. They say that the virus in itself can be rather delicate which is why washing your hands breaks it up and off. In my house we don’t put shoes on furniture either so the likelihood of actually getting it from your shoe is extremely unlikely.

And apparently that study was done on medicos coming straight from the ICU. I thought they always wore shoe covers in ICU. Last time I was there they did, slipping them onremoving them in the anteroom. Rubbing germs off or elapsed time on any surface is not a sterilization technique recognized by medical personnel, however. Many germs still live on, able to sicken and kill dispite many methods of washing, scrubbing/rubbing, etc. Otherwise, surgeons, nurses, etc., wouldn't scrub up, glove, gown and bootie up before entering the O. R. or room of a very contageious patient. Only recognized, proven washing techniques, disinfectants or sterilization kill some germs/microbes.

Still, for those who don't want to take a chance of coronavirus or some other bug remaining in a poroous or scuffed area on your shoe or hardy enough not to get rubbed off, it's good to know to take the precaution of changing shoes outside or in the car. Thankfully I haven't really had cold or flu sx. longer than a half-day since I began wearing washable clogs, which I change out at the front door, back door or the utility porch door.

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...w=1325&bih=584

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...cbHDwMQ4dUDCAw

So far I have not been out in a public area, but if I have to, those shoes I wear will stay in a bag outside of my house. Always "better safe then sorry".

On TV they always wear them but honestly the couple of times I have had family in the ICU I didn’t pay attention. It also maybe one of the things they have run out of. This virus is actually considered very fragile to in this instance it wouldn’t survive. I’m pretty anal about shoes when we have had snow or ice and salt is every where. Several dog illnesses can also be brought in by shoes. I take my shoes off pretty much right when I get home because I much prefer slippers :)

Covid 19 virus microbes are relatively fragile, depending on what they are encountering that's not a host or carrier. I'm not so sure wear and tear of shoe soles or time or air will necessarily rip the lipid/fat envelope encasing the Covid-19 virus open and destroy or loosen it from any surface before I might touch it and become a host and/or carrier to it. Wear and tear or time destruction of it may not be quite fast enough to destroy it before it transfers or infects another host. Soap and water or disinfectant type substances clean greasy surfaces better than just using whatever it's on and eventually wearing or transferring the microbe or grease off to another surface so I'm not chancing Covid-19 will eventually wear off my shoes quickly enough for safety.

Thankfully most who get the virus live and don't seem to have any lingering after effects so far.

There are so many things that get carried on shoes. Remember that all things fall to the floor. A person sneezes, and down it goes except for that light aerosol part that lingers in the air.
I keep spray Lysol at my door so I can spray my shoes.

I agree.

I really wish people would look up things before posting. :( I studied microbiology and can assure you that bacteria and viruses DO stay on shoes; but, aside from that, the CDC already has commented on this topic.

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronav...t-13-feet-cdc/

It’s just an opinion. I have read many things about this virus and that’s still my opinion. It seems many opinions and facts seem to change. It’s like no one is on the same page. No matter how hard we try we can’t completely keep it out there will always be something that wasn’t thought of. We can only do the best we can and try not to drive ourselves crazy.

Do you realize the virus can also stay in our hair. If you are near someone who sneezes or coughs, the germs could possibly land on our hair. Then you touch your hair while brushing or combing and the germs can transfer to your hands.

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Then you touch your face, eyes, mouth and wham.....Hello Corona virus

You can lead a horse to water.