This nurse demonstrates just how fast germs spread even if you're wearing gloves

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This nurse demonstrates just how fast germs spread even if you're wearing gloves
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In her video, this former ER nurse simulates going to the grocery store and she starts off by putting gloves on her hands, grabbing her cell phone as she leaves her car, cleaning a shopping cart and grabbing some toilet paper

But that doesn't mean many well-meaning people may not wind up exposing themselves to germs unwittingly.On a recent trip to the grocery store, Molly Lixey, a former emergency room nurse in Saginaw, Michigan, told CNN she noticed a lot of people wearing gloves, which she thought was great. But what wasn't so great? All the cross-contamination she saw.In an off-the-cuff Facebook video, Lixey decided to demonstrate just how quick and easy it is to spread germs at a grocery store.

Lixey currently works inside an infusion clinic at a doctor's office. She said if the virus continues to spread in her area more, she will go back to working in a hospital setting.She isn't the only one taking to social media to educate on the importance of understanding how germs spread.Hays Earls, a registered nurse in Dallas, Texas, made a TikTok video of an experiment she did to show her three-year-old son how germs stick to our hands and how washing them with soap removes them.

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