![New York State Unveils Its Own Hand Sanitizer](https://townsquare.media/site/40/files/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-7.20.13-PM.png?w=980&q=75)
New York State Unveils Its Own Hand Sanitizer
The Empire State now has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus (over 140 as of March 9, 2020) than any other U.S. state. So, we've come up with a brilliant way to fight the coronavirus AND price-gouging, AND possibly generate revenue—all at the same time.
New York is producing its own handmade hand sanitizer to distribute to schools, governments, prisons and communities suffering especially adverse effects from the coronavirus, according to New york State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Hand sanitizers are growing increasingly more expensive and the supply is dwindling due to heavy demand for the product, so New York is turning to its prison system to crank out more than 100,000 gallons per week of New York State hand sanitizer, which is called NYS Clean.
Governor Cuomo described the scent as a “floral bouquet” and added that it will be manufactured economically through CorCraft, the state’s prison-run business.
The product is being made by prisoners at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security lock-up located east of Lake George in the Washington County town of Comstock. They already make glass cleaners, vehicle fluids and other similar products there, so this is an easy stretch.
It will be provided free to local governments, schools, prisons and other public agencies, and the governor suggested New York State could start selling it on the open market and competing with other hand sanitizers.
More From 96.9 WOUR
![Masks Make Comeback as COVID Cases Increase in Central New York](http://townsquare.media/site/498/files/2021/05/engin-akyurt-AS-ksEGPa2c-unsplash.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Here’s Exciting News For New Yorkers- Canada Lifting These Restrictions](http://townsquare.media/site/40/files/2022/09/attachment-adrien-delforge-KzZnaWBjpwI-unsplash.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Ozzy Osbourne to Perform at Halftime of NFL’s Rams vs. Bills Season Kickoff](http://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2022/09/attachment-ozzy_osbourne_2022_buffalo_bills_los_angeles_rams.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Tony Iommi Reveals Why Geezer Butler Didn’t Join Him + Ozzy at Commonwealth Games](http://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2022/08/attachment-ozzy_osbourne_tony_iommi_commonwealth_games_2022.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![New Yorkers’ View on COVID Remains Unchanged After Two Years](http://townsquare.media/site/498/files/2022/06/attachment-pille-r-priske-O5Fo4vUuIBM-unsplash.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Whitesnake Guitarist Reb Beach Misses 4 Shows in a Row, Fans Show Concern](http://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2022/06/attachment-reb_beach_poison_live_2022.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Pearl Jam Cancel Two Shows After Jeff Ament Gets COVID-19](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2022/05/attachment-pj16.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Masks Required Indoors at SUNY Oneonta, Again](http://townsquare.media/site/499/files/2020/07/2020.07.15-SHOPPERS-MASKS1-e1594837173687.jpg?w=980&q=75)