Wear gloves, or wash hands to avoid coronavirus? - Fox News

As state-mandated coronavirus lockdowns are slowly ending in the U.S., an important factor remains what's the best way to prevent from catching the virus or spreading it to others -- if you decide to venture out into public spaces.

The CDC even created a subsection on its website titled, "Spread from contact with contaminated surfaces or objects," which has since been removed. The potential spread from surfaces has since been added under a new subsection titled "The virus does not spread easily in other ways.".

CDC NOW SAYS CORONAVIRUS 'DOES NOT SPREAD EASILY' VIA CONTAMINATED SURFACES?

So what's better: wearing gloves, or washing your hands.

The CDC still lists frequent hand washing as the better option to prevent getting the virus, even with the possibility of catching the virus after touching surfaces.

Dr. David Cennimo, an infectious disease specialist and teacher at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School also recommends the act of washing hands over wearing gloves when asked what was the better option.

Although there is no definitive data confirming that hand washing is necessarily better, gloves are just as contaminated as a person’s hands," Cennimo told NJ.com. "If someone wears gloves for prolonged periods of time, and are touching their face or other surfaces with the gloves, they’re not helping themselves at all.

Marc Siegel echoed those sentiments when he said in late March that he prefers constant hand sanitization and washing over wearing gloves for safety purposes during the coronavirus outbreak.

Even with the agency's notion that surfaces aren't the main way to spread the virus when compared to person-to-person spread, the CDC still recommends cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched areas daily.