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Rice University: Psychologists to Public: Here's How to Stop Touching Your Faces and #Flattenthecurve
April 04, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, April 4 -- Rice University issued the following news release on April 3:

The average person touches their face 23 times an hour. It's an activity so common most people don't realize when or how much they're doing it.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, health organizations are urging people to stop touching their faces to stop the spread of the virus and flatten the curve. Jim Pomerantz, a professor of psychological sciences at Rice University and . . .

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