Corona Virus
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- (Hand-Washing Germ Scanner)
- This restaurant is very clean
- I know right we should come here more often
- (Corona-virus Fears)
- The Pathspot uses beams of light, says Schindler. The light beams bounce off of microbes on aperson's hand. The reflection of the beams is received by the tablet's camera,
- The study watched 383 people prepare turkey burgers in test kitchens. Fewer than 3 percent ofparticipants washed their hands for the recommended 20 to 30 seconds. Then researchersanalyzed microbe samples from refrigerator handles, spice containers and salads. They found upto 41 percent of them had been contaminated.
- Schindler says the information from PathSpot can tell a restaurant how to better train theiremployees and tell them what the employees need to change. Schindler hopes PathSpot willinspire people to be excited about cleanliness.
- The novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, are sweeping theglobe. With thousands of deaths already, and many tens of thousands of people infected across theworld, it's safe to say that the coronavirus has become one of the biggest events of the 21st century.
- The problem with scary things is that we aren't very good at reacting to them. Humans are, whenpush comes to shove, awful at interpreting risk. We're much more freaked out over turbulence ona plane than a near-miss in traffic, even though of the two a car crash is far more likely to be thesource of our untimely demise.
- In the case of the coronavirus, there are some pretty obvious examples. Reports are out that peopleare panic-buying everything from toilet paper to ibuprofen, even if there is no outbreak in theirlocal area nor a strong likelihood of a shortage of either any time soon. People are taking topharmacies in droves, dragging masks off the shelves like there's no tomorrow.
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