How to Stop Touching Your Face to Minimize Spread of Coronavirus and Other Germs
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-19-2020
Publication Title
The Conversation
First page number:
1
Last page number:
4
Abstract
Public health officials consistently promote hand-washing as a way for people to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, this virus can live on metal and plastic for days, so simply adjusting your eyeglasses with unwashed hands may be enough to infect yourself. Thus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have been telling people to stop touching their faces.
Keywords
COVID-19; Preventative behaviors; Personal contact; Face-touching; Hand-washing; Infectious diseases; Reducing the spread
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Public Health | Public Health Education and Promotion
Language
English
Repository Citation
Benning, S. D.,
Labus, B.,
Barchard, K.
(2020).
How to Stop Touching Your Face to Minimize Spread of Coronavirus and Other Germs.
The Conversation
1-4.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/psychology_fac_articles/551