How soap kills the coronavirus

Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus.

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You’ve been told a thousand times: wash your hands to stop the spread of COVID-19. But why does this work so well? It has to do with the way the soap molecules are able to absolutely demolish viruses, like the coronavirus.

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Vox

May 26, 2020

When you wash your hands for twenty seconds, you’re not just washing viruses down the drain. Soap destroys the coronavirus. Read more: http://bit.ly/2WqzEfo

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松崎涼子

Eat green bananas

Basith Hameed

It doesn't take soap molecules to destroy the virus in 20 seconds, it happens within fraction of seconds but it takes 20 seconds soap molecules to get all over your hands.

Zogg from Betelgeuse

What's a "Coronavirus molecule" (1:23)?

uzma salman

wow, thanks for telling me, i will wash my hands for 20 seconds now, you gave me so much information

Kermit

Hand-washing should be personal frequent habit even if the covid didn't exist anyway.

Random Category

I gotta add soap to my diet now thank u

Digitalk

Thank you the vital information

Fungkha Basumatary

If soaps and sanitizers do the trick then why not make the vaccine with it?? 🤔🤔

lifelesskids

Wrong

my dog baily

when not show a cleaning of the taps first. then wash your hands
i think joe public have more common sense , or is this for the under 3s

DoggoGaming

Bomb the world with soap

It’s KaitlinYT

What if soup was the cure for the coronavirus and the virus could stop spreading 🙂

frankie estrada

Whose here during the coronavirus

Tim Le

Just amputate your hands so you don't have to wash them

Zion Sime

That oil and water before the soap that were my parents when I was growing up. 😣😣😣

nick solis

I can really take a bath with the soap I have🛁

Anonymous

Others: Sing a song 20 sec.

Me: Counting from 1 to 20 sec. 😂

katsuki bakugou

I'm adout to wash my whole body for 43 minutes

Thianar Junior

Alcohol…. Am I a joke to you…

KaTLuVeR

remember kids, eat lots of soap and drink lots of water to stay healthy and invincible from viruses.

NATHANIEL TAYLOR

Finally found a way to safely and correctly wash my hands . The whole time I was doing it wrong .

stunna vegas

U might aswell do medicines with soaps 🤔

Birdie Giovanna

Wait you use that stuff on your hands? Oh I just drink the soap and for extra effect I drink boiling water to wash it down…

bune tactic

Look into the benifits of copper. Its antimicrobial…… Also drink from copper a Vessel.. That the water has sat in over night… Miracle juice

Diego Garcia-Bellido

Dear Vox: great video, but viruses DO NOT have organelles inside (like bacteria or other cells do), just the nucleic acid chain (a very long single strand of RNA in the case of SARS-CoV-2)… 😉

Abhishek Neupane

Nice One !! Loved it.

Angel Arreola

2:15. A Correction caption the word “here” I can hear “there”.

guapa __

“soap completely annihilates the corona vir-“
me: completely covers my body in soaps and eats it to prevent getting corona .

Tateposco California Amador

But singing 🎤 mentaly without sounds please😜😁

Cabko2691

orrrrrr… just count to 20?

Potricks

Welp time to drink soap

dskyy2001

We should help people get thru this pandemic. Los Angeles should have fire department create streets filled with soap bubbles. Maybe at that point, the mayor of Los Angeles will let people out to be accidentally hit by vehicles.

Dali Martinez

i didnt understand anything

malikibrshk

What if i let the soap stay on hands for 20 seconds and then i wash it away.?

Kalpana Sarkar

Is detergent has the same effect,as we wash cloths with detergents.

Ziad Sukkar

I suggest giving covid-19 sufferers two drops of clove oil per day, as it possesses eugenol, an aromatic compound of anti-veral properties and LDL level control

Nancy Hey

Definitely very useful information,!

Jenny Kang

Not all viruses have envelopes made of lipid and their shell is made of glycoprotein, so I wonder if the dissociation effect applies to virus without an envelope as well? I always thought the most dominant effect is that the surfactants remove the virus from the skin and allow them to disperse in water to be flushed away.

Rehan 786

Set 8 people will squirt soap in their mouth after watching this

Lakshman Tiwari

Can’t we just drink water mixed with soap 🤕

Nate Dogg

I sing Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen when I wash my hands.

Tree Of Life

I submerge my whole body in soap for an hour every time i go home and triple wash my clothes just in case and I still feel anxious.

Simone Curtin

If possible, try not to turn faucets off directly with freshly washed hands. They’re often covered in bacteria.

nitin deshmukh

Thank you for video
Very good information