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Forget Stockpiling Toilet Paper, Here's What Health Officials Really Want You to Do

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Nikki Rojas
Mar 10, 2020
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People around the world are scrambling to stock up on household goods, food and medication as the new coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to grow. Unfortunately, the stockpiling is quickly moving from common sense preparedness to outright panicked hoarding.

“Panic buying is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Karan Girotra, professor of operations at Cornell Unive…

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