Disinfectant use by K-12 school staff to combat SARS-CoV-2

K-12 school staff from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio were asked about their use of disinfectants to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Survey participants (n = 1,555) reported frequent use of disinfectants, often using unknown products, and were provided little to no training on safe and effec...

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Autores principales: Hilbert, Timothy J., Brancato, Candace, Carter, Kelsey, Westneat, Susan, Bush, Heather M., Haynes, Erin N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8390093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34455031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.023
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description K-12 school staff from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio were asked about their use of disinfectants to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Survey participants (n = 1,555) reported frequent use of disinfectants, often using unknown products, and were provided little to no training on safe and effective use. Participant concerns included student involvement in disinfection, inadequate ventilation, surface contact time, and potential health effects.
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spelling pubmed-83900932021-08-27 Disinfectant use by K-12 school staff to combat SARS-CoV-2 Hilbert, Timothy J. Brancato, Candace Carter, Kelsey Westneat, Susan Bush, Heather M. Haynes, Erin N. Am J Infect Control Brief Report K-12 school staff from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio were asked about their use of disinfectants to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Survey participants (n = 1,555) reported frequent use of disinfectants, often using unknown products, and were provided little to no training on safe and effective use. Participant concerns included student involvement in disinfection, inadequate ventilation, surface contact time, and potential health effects. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-11 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8390093/ /pubmed/34455031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.023 Text en © 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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