After a TikTok user rehabbed a couch from the curb, a bedbug expert urges caution

A screenshot shows TikTok user yafavv.mandaa finding a blue couch on a New York City street. The video spurred questions about whether the sofa might have bed bugs. (Screenshot by NPR)

After a TikTok user found a used couch on a New York City curb and rehabbed it to use in her apartment, some were quick to point out one tiny issue: it might have bedbugs.

The user, yafavv.mandaa, shared footage of her and her family cleaning the couch, and said in a follow-up video that it sat at her father's workplace for two weeks before she took it home.