Maybe this whole MRSA thing has gone too far: Brooklyn state assemblyman Dov Hikind has arranged for the DermaRite corporation, based in New Jersey, to distribute ten thousand units of its gel-based hand sanitizer in a “compact and easy to use” pen-shaped dispenser to city schoolchildren.

“We don’t want to scare parents,” says Hikind. Then he goes on to say, “Tell your children again and again: Wash, Cleanse, Cover.”

“Taking Hand-Sanitizing to a New Level?” [New York Times]
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