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Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer? - Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson

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Your hands, up close, are anything but smooth. With peaks and valleys, folds and rifts, there are plenty of hiding places for a virus to stick. If you then touch your face, the virus can infect you. But there are two extraordinarily simple ways you can keep that from happening: soap and water, and hand sanitizer. So which is better? Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson investigate.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Pall Thordarson, Alex Rosenthal
Director
Igor Coric
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Storyboard Artist
Igor Coric
Animator
Igor Coric
Art Director
Igor Coric
Compositor
Igor Coric
Sound Designer
Weston Fonger
Music
Weston Fonger
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Fact-Checker
Joseph Isaac
Special Thanks
Kim Preshoff

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