What’s something you do 9 to 23 times an hour?

Experts say people touch their faces frequently. They wipe their eyes, scratch their noses and bite their nails. Studies show that students, office workers and medical personal touch their faces between 9 and 23 times per hour, on average.

A physical barrier can help prevent people from unknowingly scratching or rubbing their face and wiping their eyes. Just ask a veterinarian.

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Tricks to Stop Touching Your Face – Marketwatch
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have been telling people to stop touching their faces...
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Facial Barrier – Moving Personal Protective Equipment Into the Community – JAMA Network
Face shields offer a number of advantages. While medical masks have limited durability and little potential for reprocessing, face shields can be reused indefinitely and are easily cleaned with soap and water, or common household disinfectants. They are comfortable to wear, protect the portals of viral entry, and reduce the potential for autoinoculation by preventing the wearer from touching their face… read more

Back To School – How to Get Kids to Stop Touching Their Face – Parents.com
Experts say avoiding touching your face can help quell the spread, but how do you get kids’ busy hands to stop rubbing their faces?… read more

VIDEO: How to Stop Touching Your Face – Lifehacker
At this point, many people are well aware of the two main strategies to slow the spread… more

Not Touching Your Face Is Harder Than It Sounds – CNN Health
We’ve been touching our faces all our lives, and stopping that habit is easier said than done. A video widely shared on social media showed a health official touching her face during a news conference advising people not to do that…
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VIDEO: Here’s How to Stop Touching Your Faces and #FlatteningTheCurve – Rice University
The average person touches their face 23 times an hour. It’s an activity so common… more

Don’t Touch Your Face – APIC
To help prevent infections, keep your hands away from your eyes, nose, and mouth. Why? Touching the mucous membranes on your face with your dirty hands allows germs that cause respiratory infections to enter the body...
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How Not to Touch Your Face – University of MD Medical System
Touching your face is a habit that most of us have. We brush the hair from our eyes, scratch our noses, rest our chins in our hands multiple times throughout the day, not to mention taking glasses on and off, rubbing our foreheads and most recently…
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Are Face Shields Better for Fighting Covid-19 – Article at MedicineNet

Now, a team of experts say face shields might replace masks as a more comfortable and more effective deterrent to COVID19… More at MedicineNet

Can Plastic Face Shields Help Prevent the Spread? – Article at Today.com

Experts are split but a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland who focuses on emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness, said that the plastic masks can be helpful while experts work to determine the efficacy of cloth face coverings... More at Today.com

Why Face Shields May be Better than Face Masks? – Article at Business Insider

Here’s why plastic shields, which are already a critical piece of protective gear for many hospital workers, may be a better disease-fighting tool than a mask, for venturing out in public… More at Business Insider

Every Person Should Have a Face Shield – Article a DeZeen

“I think every person should have a face shield, “It should be worn anytime they leave their home, while in any public place, and even at work. I believe that if every person wore a face shield when out of their home, we would bend the curve faster and return to normal life sooner.” More at DeZeen

Can Plastic Face Shields Help Prevent the Spread? – Article at Today.com

Experts are split but a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland who focuses on emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness, said that the plastic masks can be helpful while experts work to determine the efficacy of cloth face coverings... More at Today.com

Why Face Shields May be Better than Face Masks? – Article at Business Insider

Here’s why plastic shields, which are already a critical piece of protective gear for many hospital workers, may be a better disease-fighting tool than a mask, for venturing out in public… More at Business Insider

Are Face Shields Better for Fighting Covid-19 – Article at MedicineNet

Now, a team of experts say face shields might replace masks as a more comfortable and more effective deterrent to COVID19… More at MedicineNet

Every Person Should Have a Face Shield – Article a DeZeen

“I think every person should have a face shield, “It should be worn anytime they leave their home, while in any public place, and even at work. I believe that if every person wore a face shield when out of their home, we would bend the curve faster and return to normal life sooner.” More at DeZeen

Why Face Shields May be Better than Face Masks? – Article at Business Insider

Here’s why plastic shields, which are already a critical piece of protective gear for many hospital workers, may be a better disease-fighting tool than a mask, for venturing out in public… More at Business Insider

Can Plastic Face Shields Help Prevent the Spread? – Article at Today.com

Experts are split but a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland who focuses on emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness, said that the plastic masks can be helpful while experts work to determine the efficacy of cloth face coverings... More at Today.com

Are Face Shields Better for Fighting Covid-19 – Article at MedicineNet

Now, a team of experts say face shields might replace masks as a more comfortable and more effective deterrent to COVID19… More at MedicineNet

Every Person Should Have a Face Shield – Article at DeZeen

“I think every person should have a face shield, It should be worn anytime they leave their home, while in any public place, and even at work. I believe that if every person wore a face shield when out of their home, we would bend the curve faster and return to normal life sooner.” More at DeZeen

Doctors Are Pleading for People to Donate PPE Gear—Here’s How You Can Help – Article at Health.com

To be able to care for COVID-19 patients without compromising their own health, the health of their families, and without passing the infection to others, America’s frontline healthcare workers need adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). But right now, respirators, surgical masks, gloves, and other essential supplies are in dangerously short supply in many hospitals, particularly in metropolitan centers…. more