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Combatting Contamination Obsessions
- Give yourself permission to set a basic safety plan based on the recommendations of trusted health organizations, and do not add to it.
- Disinfect surfaces once a day. Focus on the surfaces in your home that are frequently touched, and think about whether this is truly needed (for example, if you stayed home all day and had no visitors, do you really need to disinfect that doorknob?). This process shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes per day.
- Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds after being outside or in public, before eating, after going to the bathroom, and after you’ve coughed/sneezed/blown your nose. If soap and water are not available to you, use hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
- Remember that washing your hands for more than 20 seconds and using harsh chemicals to disinfect hands will not lower risk of becoming infected with the virus.
- If you want to do more than this, pick a person to help you figure out what might be a reasonable and rational safety measure to take.
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Updated 2020-07-16
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