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

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   “Hand sanitizers contain alcohol, and alcohol is a chemical that will disrupt the surfaces and outer envelope of many viruses, therefore killing the virus,” says William Schaffner, M.D., an ...

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

6. Hand sanitizers that meet CDC requirements - AOL

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   Similarly to UV sanitizers and face masks (including antimicrobial face coverings), hand sanitizers have become highly sought-after due to coronavirus. Popular purveyors of hand sanitizers were ...

7. 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.

8. Transmission-based precautions - Wikipedia

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   Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...

9. 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.