Hand Washing: Superpower to protect Corona Virus
The single most vital piece of recommendation health experts can give to assist us stay safe from COVID-19 is that this one: Wash your hands . "In the ultimate analysis, it is the hands. The hands are the connecting piece," says Elizabeth Scott, PhD. Scott co-directs the middle for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community at Simmons University in Boston. "You can't necessarily control what you touch. You cannot control who else touched it. But you'll take care of your own hands," she says. Hand-washing — with soap and water — may be a much more powerful weapon against germs than many folks realize. The first thing that's happening is that you're physically removing things from your hands. At an equivalent time, surely agents, the soap will actually be busting open that agent, breaking it apart." Corona viruses, like this year's version that has left 100,000 worldwide infected with COVID-19, are encased during a lipid...