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
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VIDEO: How to Stop Touching Your Face – Lifehacker
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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
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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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