Institutions are required to launder garments used as personal protective
equipment and uniforms visibly soiled with blood or infective material
There are few data to determine the safety of home laundering of HCW uniforms, but
no increase in infection rates was observed in the one published study and no
pathogens were recovered from home- or hospital-laundered scrubs in another
study
In the home, textiles and laundry from patients with potentially
transmissible infectious pathogens do not require special handling or separate
laundering, and may be washed with warm water and detergent