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De Dominguez elementary school demonstrates how to avoid spreading germs - Transcript 

Title: At Ortiz De Dominguez School, Assistant Principal Carmen Malave instructed a class on why they should not cough or sneeze into the air.

 

Carmen Malave: If you cough or sneeze, please make sure you do not sneeze on your hand.  If we sneeze on our hands, and we touch someone else, we can spread the germs.  So if you're going to sneeze, make sure you cover your mouth with your forearm, okay, and you sneeze away from the people that are with you.  Can you show me how you would sneeze using your forearm?  Can you show me?

 

Students: Ah-choo!

 

Carmen Malave: Very good.  The other thing you can do, boys and girls: all your teachers have kleenex.  Everyone has kleenex, right, in your classrom?  If you need to sneeze, make sure you take the kleenex, and you open it up, and when you have to sneeze, you look away - ah-choo! - and you sneeze on the kleenex.  And then you roll it up, and you throw it in the garbage can.  Can you try doing that?  Can you use the kleenex so that you can sneeze?  Go ahead.

 

Student: Ah-choo!

 

Carmen Malave: Very good.  You're going to roll it up, and where are you going to throw it?

 

Student: In the garbage.


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