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Hand-washing takes less than half a minute, yet an estimated 97% of people do it wrong. That's a big problem since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that one of the most ...

If your New Year energy is somewhere between “I want to become my best self” and “I just want my bathroom to feel nicer,” the ...

My father the doctor maintained that hand-washing was our family’s single greatest obligation to one another and to the world. Is there any hope we’ll all keep doing it? By Nancy Stearns Bercaw My ...

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via large droplets, which fell ...

The Trump Administration has committed to reopening the economy at all costs, the White House coronavirus task force has vanished from view, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was silenced ...