[...] In 2013, researchers at Michigan State University carried out a thankless, if mildly creepy, study. They observed how more than 3,500 residents of their college town used the sink at various restrooms after they carried out their business.
Some 10 percent of people observed chose not to wash their hands at all, which is simply not an acceptable way to end a trip to the bathroom. But even the vast majority of people who tried to wash their hands managed to totally flub the proper routine. Almost a quarter of people washed their hands without soap, for instance. And only 5 percent washed their hands for at least 15 seconds or longer, which is actually lower than the 20-second minimum of handwashing recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://gizmodo.com/in-a-world-of-mrsa-and-superfungi-you-need-to-start-wa-1833889953
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Friday April 12 2019, @03:17AM
Nobody forces me to take a statin drug -- I take one because I unfortunately inherited genetic/familial hypercholesterolemia [wikipedia.org], and would rather not follow past generations of my mother's family who either died young before the right statin drugs existed or needed multiple-bypass surgery after starting the right drug in middle age. (Or in my grandmother's case, dying at age 39 during experimental bypass surgery.)