Soap and hand sanitizer are disappearing quickly from store shelves amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic—sanitizer being the rarer find. But is one more effective than the other? Alexander Chen, M ...

Hand sanitizer and hand washing have been all over the headlines for a week now. In times like these, they are common sense. But is one better than the other? Yes, says Andrea Love, Immunologist and ...

Scientific studies suggest that good hand hygiene helps stop the spread of Coronavirus, and the Centers for Disease Control says that washing with soap and water is the best way to get rid of germs.

People are stocking up on hand sanitizer but soap and water is the gold standard for preventing disease. The new coronavirus comes encased in a layer of fat, or lipid envelope, which soap can break ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world and there is still no available treatment or a vaccine, and while efforts continue on these fronts, it's likely to be months if not years before we ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The hand sanitizers on ...

In the global health war against the COVID-19 coronavirus, there are two measures we know of that effectively prevent the spread of the outbreak while the world waits on a vaccine: Quarantine/social ...

Dr, William DePaolo is director of the Center for Microbiome Sciences & Therapeutics at UW Medical Center. He says, yes, hand sanitizer kills harmful bacteria, but it also kills the good bacteria you ...

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The world is counting on you to help stop the spread of Covid-19, the deadly new disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Take heart that while you’re ...

When Lauren Johnson reached for a squirt of hand sanitizer on her way out of the doctor’s office, she regretted it immediately. In the Central Texas prison where she was housed, alcohol-based hand ...

Publix posts a sign in the soap and sanitizer section limiting shoppers to two items of each product. (WJXT) Publix Super Markets began limiting how much soap and hand sanitizer shoppers can purchase ...