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Experts warn against going overboard to stockpile goods.
- Coronavirus panic has led to shoppers stockpiling goods - but not all of these goods are necessary to have on hand.
- Business Insider spoke with two experts to find out which wildly popular prepper items you don't need to stockpile, from toilet paper to hand sanitizer.
- The main takeaway: don't go overboard. Most supplies only need to last the 14 days of a potential quarantine.
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As coronavirus cases rise in countries including the United States, shoppers have scrambled to stockpile supplies, emptying store shelves of many goods. However, not all of the items that shoppers are frantically stockpiling are necessary, or even useful.
Business Insider spoke with two experts about what not to "panic buy" for a potential coronavirus quarantine.
Dr. Manisha Juthani is an associate professor of medicine of infectious diseases and epidemiology of microbial diseases at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Irwin Redlener is Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, where he is also a professor of health policy at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Here are five wildly popular items that shoppers have been stockpiling that aren't useful or necessary, according to these experts.