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By Sarah Gantz
Philadelphia Inquirer
August 6, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stoked by fear of a virus that doctors and researchers knew little about, we wiped down our groceries, bought up every last roll of toilet paper, and researched how to make our own hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alison Buttenheim was no expert in infectious diseases, but as a social scientist and public health researcher, she felt compelled to help friends and family make sense of the novel coronavirus spreading quickly in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWash hands wash hands wash hands. Seriously, it\u2019s like the Victory Garden equivalent of how we win this war against #COVID19US<\/a>\u201d Buttenheim, who is an associate professor of nursing and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, tweeted in late February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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