Name: What If You Didn't Wash Your Hands for a Year?
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T08:31:06.000Z
Duration: 5 min 38 s
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when you grow your hand bacteria in petri dishes.

is after a full 20-second hand wash with soap.

when you just rinse your hands with water.

lives on your hands when you don't wash them.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC,

I hope our research team didn't test this one on themselves.

How soon will you become a walking bacteria stick?

Unfortunately, I can't give you an exact timeline here.

like the types of germs, and how many people

The only certainty is that you would get sick.

They'd be covered in dirt and grease, and

and I wouldn't even give you an elbow bump.

According to research from the University of Colorado,

the number of germs on your fingertips would double.

That has something to do with the fact that

germs can spray up to 2 m (6 ft) in the air when you flush.

You'd transfer all those bacteria to your food and drinks.

And that would be making you repeatedly sick.

You'd be having 30% more diarrhea-related illnesses

and 20% more respiratory infections like flu.

Your doctor would keep prescribing antibiotics.

If that's not bad enough, you'd make others sick as well.

If a pandemic spreads all over the world,

the economic slowdown could cost trillions of dollars.

Bottom line, not washing your hands for a year

but if you do, make sure to practice social distancing,

so you don't come in contact with too many people

It's the best method for removing hand bacteria

Keep lathering your hands for at least 20 seconds.

You can hum a verse of your favorite song twice,

or just watch this video from this point and till the end.

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What If You Didn't Wash Your Hands for a Year?

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eventually

pandemic