Many places of business have stopped accepting reusable grocery bags or coffee cups from customers — but even if your store hasn't, should you be bringing yours in? Here's what experts say about how safe it really is:
the virus is spread through respiratory droplets in the air and "transmission of novel coronavirus to persons from surfaces contaminated with the virus has not been documented" — but recommends all surfaces be cleaned thoroughly and regularly.
Dr. Tierno suggests cleaning out your reusable bags by wiping them down with a disinfectant wipe , or dipping them into a solution of soapy water and rinsing them out. "Dip them in a soapy solution — to give it a boost, add a bit of bleach — run your bathtub and put the bags in there. The virus is made of a layer of lipids and protein spikes, and lipids are killed with soap and water," he says. "[Any bag that] doesn’t hold up [under the solution] should be thrown away." In other words, there's a lack of hard-and-fast data on whether or not reusable bags can spread the virus.
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