An infectious disease professor from the University of Washington said doctors have been “worried about handshaking forever.”
With much of the U.S. practicing social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, people are wondering just when, or if, their lives will get back to normal.President Donald Trump suggested as much Thursday. He’s stuck to an Easter Sunday date of “reopening” the country but said the country won’t stop with guidelines the White House has issued to stop the spread of coronavirus.
"And, frankly, much of the guidelines like shaking hands — maybe people aren't going to be shaking hands anymore,” Trump said. “You know Tony had mentioned to me, Tony Fauci, the other day that — I don't think he would be too upset with the concept of not shaking hands.“He was saying that the flu would cut down, the regular flu would be cut down by quite a bit if we didn't do that, if we didn't shake hands.
Trump isn’t alone. Infectious disease doctors nationwide have discussed ending the typical social greeting, said, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington. Thoughts of ending the handshake didn’t begin with the coronavirus pandemic, he said. “As an infectious disease doctor, I think I speak on behalf of almost all of my colleagues — if not all of them — when we say, 'Yes, we’ve been worried about handshaking forever,'” Pottinger said. “This is clearly a great way for people to spread germs, including dangerous germs, from person to person. That’s always been true.”
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