Sharing a home with someone who has COVID-19 raises your risk of catching the virus. Here's a quick guide for staying healthy — and supporting them — based on advice from infectious disease and public health experts.
at home."It would help if you could ventilate the bathroom by opening a window, or running the exhaust fan, if so equipped."
Bender Ignacio says it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to remove all the bottles and lotions people tend to keep in the bathroom, so you can minimize the number of surfaces you have to disinfect in there. One idea: Everyone in the home might carry the items they'll need to use in the bathroom with them in a caddy, and remove them when they exit.
Keeping small children away can also be difficult if it is the parent who is sick."If you have a child and you have a partner and that child is satisfied with the partner's hugs, then that's great," she says.
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