America's lead immunologist advising the White House says handshakes should be scrapped - even after the COVID-19 pandemic. What do you think? 9News
"What the handshake is saying is, `I'm really with you and here for you. You can trust me,"' handshake expert Robert E. Brown told the Chicago Tribune in 2005."I love the people of this country, and you can't be a politician and not shake hands,"
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.Images of presidents - and presidential candidates - wading into crowds to shake as many hands as possible in the shortest amount of time are de rigeur throughout history. Teddy Roosevelt holds the record for most handshakes by a head of state on a single day; on January 1, 1907, Roosevelt shook the hands of 8,513 people.
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