Wearing gloves won't protect you from COVID-19 and isn't a replacement for good hand hygiene. Protective measures a doctor says you should be focusing on instead:
Our experience with food has changed dramatically in a matter of a few weeks because of. We’re cooking at home more than ever before, and grocery shopping has become one of the few essential errands we leave the house for. Armed with our long shopping list and a face mask, we head out wondering if there’s anything else we can do to protect ourselves.The short answer is no. You do not need any kind of gloves at the grocery store.
The reality is you’re much more likely to catch the coronavirus from the respiratory droplets of a person talking or sneezing near you rather than from an item you touch at the store - that’s why physical distancing is so important. To protect yourself at the grocery store, wear a cloth face mask and keep a minimum 6-foot distance from others. Plan your grocery trip so you can get in an out quickly during quiet times to minimize contact with others.
To protect yourself, you’ll want to use hand sanitizer as you enter and exit the grocery store and wipe down your shopping cart handle with a disinfectant. When you get home, wash your hands well with soap and water for 20 seconds. And clean any other items that might be dirty, like your phone and reusable grocery bags.As you move about the grocery store, the gloves can get dirty from whatever you touch and transfer it along to others – just as your fingers would.
To protect others, touch as little as possible while you’re out. Don’t pick up produce and then put it back down.Our fingers and hands are great barriers to the nastiness of dirt, grease and germs on everyday items, so gloves aren’t necessary. But gloves do have an important role in medicine to protect patients and health care workers from blood and other bodily fluids. Medical gloves are in short supply, just as medical face masks are, so please don’t waste them at the grocery store.
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