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You’re listening to WPSU’s Health Minute, a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing.
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, it’s important to take the time to wash your hands properly to prevent the spread of germs.
For proper handwashing:
1. Wet your hands with running water, then lather with soap.
2. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds. To ensure accurate timing, hum the “Happy Birthday” song twice from beginning to end.
3. Finish by rinsing your hands with running water and drying them using an air dryer or a clean towel.
If you don’t have access to running water, use hand sanitizer that’s at least 60% alcohol.
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You’re listening to WPSU’s Health Minute, a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, taking measures to avoid getting influenza and pneumonia is more important than ever. Catching either on top of Covid-19 can increase the severity and duration of illness. Each year, 35 million people in the United States are sickened with influenza and 1.3 million are diagnosed with pneumonia.
Those who get flu and pneumonia shots are less likely to get sick from these diseases. If they do get sick, they tend to get a milder form of the illness.
Contact your primary care provider and ask if you could benefit from the flu or pneumonia shot.
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Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American studies and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. Denise Burgher is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Delaware and project coordinator for The Colored Conventions project. They talked with us about about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in political organizing.
TRANSCRIPT:
Cheraine Stanford: Welcome to Take Note on WPSU. I m Cheraine Stanford. 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment that secured the right to vote for women in the United States. But that right to vote did not include all women. Black women and other women of color would continue to fight for the right to vote for decades. To talk more about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in organizing, I m joined by Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State associate prof