5 Hand-Washing Steps That Can Reduce Your Risk of Getting Coronavirus

It’s hard to get through the day without hearing about the new coronavirus. You might wonder if you should worry, how to prepare, and whether those hand-washing steps and recommendations people keep talking about are actually useful. First of all, yes, wash your hands—thoroughly and often, even when there isn’t an infectious disease in the news. That said, it’s never a bad time to brush up on hand-washing steps, and that’s even more true with this new coronavirus outbreak.

When we talk about hand-washing right now, it’s crucial to talk specifically about how the new coronavirus (known formally as COVID-19 when you’re talking about the illness and SARS-CoV-2 when you’re talking about the virus itself) spreads from person to person. Keep reading to learn all about why hand-washing is an even bigger deal in the infectious disease world than usual right now, plus how to do it the right way.

How can washing your hands help you avoid the new coronavirus?

Some background before we dive in: The new coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019. Though this particular strain of coronavirus is new in humans, it’s part of a larger family of coronaviruses, which is a group of germs that can cause illnesses ranging from SARS to the common cold, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Since the first documented case of COVID-19, it has spread to approximately 73 countries around the world, according to the WHO (that’s as of press time, but will likely change).

There is still a lot that we don’t know about the new coronavirus (for instance, there isn’t a specific treatment or vaccine for it). So far, most people who get the new coronavirus will develop a mild form with symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, and fever within two to 14 days of exposure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. Even with a relatively low occurrence of severe illness, SARS-CoV-2 is still highly transmissible, the CDC says, and it’s possible that people can spread the virus before they start showing symptoms. (Still, it seems much easier to spread the virus when you’re symptomatic.)

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 happens primarily through the spread of large respiratory droplets between people within 6 feet of each other, the CDC explains. (In that way, the new coronavirus is much like the common cold or influenza.) That could mean one person with COVID-19 coughing, and another person inhaling those droplets, Marc Lipsitch, D.Phil., professor of epidemiology at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, tells SELF. It could also mean touching something like a doorknob that has SARS-CoV-2 on it, then touching your mouth, he adds. However, according to the CDC, large respiratory droplets are the key way this illness is currently spreading. (Researchers are looking into if there are other ways the virus might pass from person to person, like through contact with feces.)

Every infectious disease has a basic reproduction number, which measures the average number of people one person with the illness has the potential to infect. The new coronavirus’s basic reproduction number is likely to change (researchers are gathering information as new cases unfold), but a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that people who get the new coronavirus are likely to spread it to about two additional people. This estimate coincides with the CDC’s assessment that the new coronavirus spreads pretty easily within a community.

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