Amid coronavirus, this MIT study will make you always wash your hands at the airport. (via CNBCMakeIt)
could help curb a pandemic by up to 69% — and that includes flu-like illnesses such as coronavirus.
Experts and the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say that proper hand-washing is the best defense against contracting theAlthough hand-washing may seem like a basic task,In airports, specifically, studies suggest that only about 20% of people have clean hands, Christos Nicolaides, study author and postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management said in aThat's a big problem, because airports and airplanes are notoriously germy given the high traffic...
For this study, researchers used epidemiological modeling to simulate how hand-washing could impact the "diffusion of infections worldwide." They calculated that if 60% of travelers had clean hands, it has the potential to slow a global disease by 69%. But even if just 30% of travelers kept their hands clean, it could reduce the impact of a disease by 24%.
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