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Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck

Stuff You Should Know

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How to Keep Your Hands Clean When You're Sick

The flu virus can live for seven days just on the surface. Washing hands makes a lot of sense now that you know soap doesn't do anything. You're not actually killing anything on your hands, any germs. So let's wash our hands as often as possible. That's a good idea. And a really long t-shirt. Right. Like I wouldn't be in Howard Hughes about it, but I wash my hands a lot when there's viruses going around. Now I'm like, oh yeah, washing hands makes aA lot of sense. Because before that I was like, cleaning with antibacterial soap isn't doing anything. It's basically rinsing your hands

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