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Jim Gauthier's avatar

You alluded to my biggest concern with Norovirus: Store bought disinfectants do NOT kill this 'hard-to-kill' virus. Many long term care facilities use less expensive products to clean and disinfect that also do not have a norovirus claim on their label. My facility that I used to work at was typical of using a non-Norovirus product, and once we were in outbreak, would bring out 'the good stuff', with a quick kill claim for Norovirus. Day Cares and schools also usually use disinfectant products that do not have a norovirus claim. I would really like to see disinfectants that have at least two small, non-enveloped viruses on their label: Norovirus (feline calicivirus or murine norovirus - as surrogates) AND either Rhinovirus, Enteroviruses, or Poliovirus (a test virus companies use to check efficacy against these harder to kill viruses). Hepatitis A is also a small, non-enveloped virus. Anyone working in a setting where people gather needs to be aware of the limitations of disinfectants that they may be using on surfaces.

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Chuck Lavazzi's avatar

Just waiting for the Cochrane meta-analysis demonstrating that hand washing doesn't work, followed by right wing media hyperventilating about this plot by Big Soap to strip away our precious epithelial cells. /s

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