When was lupe hernandez born

They flare up in hot spots, and then they disperse. In this case, Lupe has a possession that others need. What does that tell you? Each one of those pieces — the nurse, the Bakersfield, the name — probably together add to a bigger picture of what the real story is. In a Long Beach distillery, a masked skeleton crew churns out hand sanitizer for first responders. In , she would have only been On an online obituary page for a Lupe G. Hernandez, who passed away in , someone left a comment last year that reads: "[Thank] you for hand sanitizer.

It helps a lot of people be germ free! Though she is a nurse, Hernandez Turner would have been only 8 in She became a nurse in and used her married name Lupe Turner by then.

More Column One Storytelling. She helped her husband start a far-right militia group. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. Scripps Mercy Hospital, Chula Vista. Scripps Hospital, Encinitas. Sharp Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa. Paradise Valley Hospital, National City. Schedule an Appointment In comes an unearthed article from The Guardian , published on March 13, For those who are unfamiliar, the story goes a little like this: In , Lupe Hernandez, a student nurse from Bakersfield, CA, was concerned about the availability of water and soap for medical professionals to use before coming in contact with patients.

She realized that a solution might be to carry alcohol in gel form. However, a recent investigation by the Smithsonian Institution historian Joyce Bedi was unable to turn up any trace of Hernandez, or any evidence of a U.

There's also Sterillium, which the German company Hartmann claims was "the world's first marketable alcohol-based hand disinfectant" when it hit European shelves in Still, others trace modern hand sanitizer back to Goldie and Jerry Lippman, the married couple that developed a waterless hand cleaner in for rubber plant workers who previously used harsh chemicals like kerosene and benzene to remove graphite and carbon black from their hands at the end of their shifts.

The Lippman's mixed their first batches of Gojo in a washing machine in the basement of Goldie's parents' Akron, Ohio home, where the couple was living at the time, according to The New Yorker.

They put the resulting product in pickle jars and sold it out of the trunk of their car. Over the ensuing decades, Gojo continued selling their products as industrial cleaners. While Purell is now the world's best-selling hand sanitizer, it took some time for stores to carry the product that most everyday customers weren't really asking for.

As such, Gojo did not release Purell onto the consumer market until That same year, Vi-Jon Industries followed Gojo's lead by introducing GermX, which is now the second best-selling hand sanitizer in America, after Purell, according to Nielsen. Despite Purell and GermX entering the consumer market in the lates, hand sanitizer sales did not start taking off until the s. First of all, it wasn't until that the CDC first revised its hand hygiene guidelines to recommend alcohol-based hand sanitizer as a possible alternative for both health care personnel and the average person looking to eliminate germs when soap and warm water are not available, or as a time-saving solution.