Amazon has some Germ-X hand sanitizer in stock at time of this posting:
- Germ-X Hand Sanitizer, Original, 32 Fluid Ounce (Pack of 4), 128 Fl Ounce for $17.99 (affiliate link)
Good price. This is shipped and sold by Amazon themselves, and will work with shop-with-points deals.
Another option is to buy from Walmart Equate Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer, 60 fl oz for $7.46 (plus $5.99 shipping fee or meet $35 minimum).
Thanks for these posts, GermX is a good brand and it is reasonably priced. Yes like Matthew says it is available in the store but you pay four times as much for a brand that you have never heard of. With school starting there may be a shortage again.
Are these posts really necessary anymore? Every store I go to has surplus of hand sanitizer everywhere
Some areas aren’t so lucky
62% is useless.
Test said >30% is effective https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0915_article
Any recommendations for pump that’ll work with the bottle?
I’m sorry. I don’t get it. What do you do with this? The virus seems to be spread via airborne droplets, not hand to surface contact. My University is spending thousands of $ on hand sanitizer stations that will just be garbage in six months, if that. I’m not going to touch them.
I think you’re supposed to rub it on your hands.
You rub it on your hands so that you don’t transfer viruses to your face after touching a contaminated surface. Tracing surface transmission is hard to discern than air droplet transmission but it does not mean it is any less likely to transfer thru surface contact, only that it is harder to discern in a non-controlled environment. In a controlled environment, if an infected person coughed on a door handle and walked away, there is a decent chance you would get it too if you touched the same door handle and then touched your face.
Directly from the WHO:
Fomite transmission
Respiratory secretions or droplets expelled by infected individuals can contaminate surfaces and objects, creating fomites (contaminated surfaces). Viable SARS-CoV-2 virus and/or RNA detected by RT-PCR can be found on those surfaces for periods ranging from HOURS TO DAYS, depending on the ambient environment (including temperature and humidity) and the type of surface, in particular at high concentration in health care facilities where COVID-19 patients were being treated. Therefore, transmission may also occur indirectly through touching surfaces in the immediate environment or objects contaminated with virus from an infected person (e.g. stethoscope or thermometer), followed by touching the mouth, nose, or eyes.
Despite consistent evidence as to SARS-CoV-2 contamination of surfaces and the survival of the virus on certain surfaces, there are no specific reports which have directly demonstrated fomite transmission. People who come into contact with potentially infectious surfaces often also have close contact with the infectious person, MAKING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN RESPIRATORY DROPLET AND FOMITE TRANSMISSION DIFFICULT TO DISCERN. However, fomite transmission is considered a likely mode of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, given consistent findings about environmental contamination in the vicinity of infected cases and the fact that other coronaviruses and respiratory viruses can transmit this way.
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-implications-for-infection-prevention-precautions
https://medium.com/the-atlantic/hygiene-theater-is-a-huge-waste-of-time-f43abc2768bf
Good article and while it doesn’t totally dismiss the use of hand sanitizers, the last line bears repeating : “Masks, social distancing, and moving activities outdoors. That’s it. That’s how we protect ourselves. That’s how we beat this thing. ”
I took away from the article that we need to not lose focus on the primary way the virus is transmitted.
From the same WHO who was against face masks and travel bans to prevent the transmission of Covid? Also the same WHO that said that the disease didn’t spread from person to person…
You should take anything they say with a huge grain of salt.
You sir are literally a moron.
No, he has a point. Surface contact transmission really has no proof. Yes, we should still do it for peace of mind and for rarest chance it happens. But really the biggest transmission pathways are droplet and aerosol.
So everyone should stay apart and get N95/KN95/PFF2 masks.
The majority of the average person’s knowledge of the virus is coming from news outlets. Are you a qualified doctor? Are you in the medical industry? An infectious disease expert? A trained medical professional? A scientist? Doubtful if you’re spending your days commenting here. Point is, no one knows the REALITY of how this spreads. It makes perfect sense that if you touch something that has the live virus on it and then touch your nose/mouth/face/whatever you can conceivably transfer it into your respiratory system. So by washing your hands or using hand sanitizer IS an EFFECTIVE way to combat the virus. Even if it’s 10% of the root causes of cases or even less.
A little less Sunday morning couch quarterbacking from idiots who have no idea how this thing works would do a lot for combating the spread of MISINFORMATION.
Thanks for the find!