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So, how likely are you to get COVID-19 from your laundry? Experts say not very. “I’d say the risk is extremely low,” says Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician and professor of internal medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
That said, you could have an increased chance if someone in your home has COVID-19, says Robert Laumbach, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor at the Rutgers University School of Public Health. But you’re more likely to contract the virus from being in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 versus touching their dirty laundry, he notes.
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The Nursing Home Decision That Haunts Andrew Cuomo
While New York’s governor comes under fire for sketchy data on nursing home deaths from COVID-19, New Jersey s governor wins praise for telling it straight.
One year ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) made a decision that would come to haunt him.
COVID-19 was pounding New York while much of the country watched the crisis that was to soon overtake their states as well. Taking advantage of emergency powers that allowed him to make pandemic policy unilaterally, Cuomo’s Department of Health informed nursing homes in late March that they could not deny admission to patients discharged from hospitals “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”
by Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist s Resource
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