{"id":2066,"date":"2020-04-03T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearepdi.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:00:14","slug":"covid-19-surface-disinfection-as-prevention-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wearepdi.com\/en-us\/covid-19-surface-disinfection-as-prevention-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Surface Disinfection As Prevention Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facility Executive Magazine<\/strong> recently published an article written by William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH, CIC and David J. Weber, MD, MPH<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19: Surface Disinfection As Prevention Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt from article:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past decade, there has been a growing appreciation that environmental contamination of hospital surfaces makes an important contribution to infection transmission for many pathogens. 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