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2. Heads Up: Your Hand Sanitizer Won’t Actually Kill This Virus

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   It’s important to use products that contain 60% alcohol, Dr. Russo says. To use hand sanitizer properly, the CDC recommends applying it to the palm of one hand and rubbing the liquid over the ...

3. Hand sanitizer isn't enough to kill norovirus, experts say ...

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   Other viruses have a fat-based outer layer called called an envelope, which is more easily broken down by alcohol-based hand sanitizers. Norovirus, on the other hand, is a non-enveloped virus.

4. Hand sanitizer - Wikipedia

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   Consumer alcohol-based hand sanitizers, and health care "hand alcohol" or "alcohol hand antiseptic agents" exist in liquid, foam, and easy-flowing gel formulations. Products with 60% to 95% alcohol by volume are effective antiseptics. Lower or higher concentrations are less effective; most products contain between 60% and 80% alcohol.

5. Hand Sanitizer Won’t Protect You From Norovirus—but This Will

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   “The alcohol in them can’t just penetrate and disrupt this virus,” says William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

6. Hand washing - Wikipedia

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   A hand sanitizer or hand antiseptic is a non-water-based hand hygiene agent. In the late 1990s and early part of the 21st century, alcohol rub non-water-based hand hygiene agents (also known as alcohol-based hand rubs, antiseptic hand rubs, or hand sanitizers) began to gain popularity.

7. Alcohols (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Vodka was alleged to be an effective homemade hand sanitizer, or an ingredient in one. The company whose brand was alleged to be protective responded to the rumours by citing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement that hand sanitizers needed to be at least 60% alcohol to be effective, and stating that their product was only ...