Wash Your F-ing Hands
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
WBEZ
4.6 ⢠924 Ratings
đď¸ 8 March 2019
âąď¸ 17 minutes
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Summary
At WBEZ (and maybe at your office too?) it seems like a lot of folks get sick at almost exactly the same time.
But why?! Simple: People in our office are sick because sick people are in our office.
âI think that is probably the single biggest thing that we could do to reduce the incidence of a lot of diseases,â says Sarah Cobey, an evolutionary microbiologist from the University of Chicago. "Just self-quarantine."
On this episode of Nerdette, Sarah takes a walk through our open office and guesses why people might be ill â and what we can do to stop the colds from spreading. She also talks about sneezes, vaccines and all the real heroes out there: people with good hygiene.
Wash your hands, people! Sheesh!
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| 0:34.9 | From WVEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm Greta Johnson, and Nerdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon-to-be favorite people, sometimes about maybe you're not so favorite subjects. |
| 0:43.2 | And today, we are talking about... |
| 0:46.2 | And specifically how they seem like they just keep going around the office, which I feel like is |
| 0:59.5 | especially ironic today of all days because I am sitting here at work with a sore throat, |
| 1:04.6 | but so it goes. So what did we do? We found a flu expert who just happens to live here in Chicago and we invited |
| 1:13.0 | her down to our studios. I am standing in the middle of a hallway. Sorry guys, excuse us. I'm standing in the |
| 1:18.4 | middle of WBE's open office newsroom. We're about to walk in and I'm here with our guest Sarah Kobe. |
| 1:23.7 | Hey Sarah. Hey, Greta. Okay, so Sarah is an evolutionary microbiologist. Is that usually how |
| 1:29.6 | you describe yourself? That's one of the ways that's a totally adequate way. Okay, we'll talk about |
| 1:34.1 | some of the other ways, too. But essentially, what that means is that she studies how viruses and germs |
| 1:38.9 | evolve to keep making us sick. To be clear, I want to say first off, I know you're not actually a medical |
| 1:46.6 | doctor, and I'm very well aware that it's also not your job to walk through work spaces and talk |
| 1:51.7 | about what looks unhealthy. But that said, looking around, is there anything you notice right off |
| 1:58.6 | the bat about how this layout could affect the spread of germs? |
| 2:01.8 | Yeah, I mean, I'm still having thoughts here. First, this kind of is reminding me of a lot of studies |
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