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A Hospital Door Handle That Sanitizes Hands With a Touch (Wired.com)

Not sure how I feel about this one so I’m going to just throw it out there for discussion.  It’s a hand sanitizer built into a hospital door, on the theory that since compliance is apparently problem in hospitals they should make it part of a motion that people are doing anyway (e.g. opening doors).

I’m definitely against sanitizing things for no reason, but it does seem like a pretty good idea in hospitals.  So maybe this is more than a gimmick.

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David Coil

David Coil is a Project Scientist in the lab of Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis. David works at the intersection between research, education, and outreach in the areas of the microbiology of the built environment, microbial ecology, and bacterial genomics. Twitter

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