“Sorry, something is wrong with my watch,” said Jack. “Where’s yours”“I left it at home.”Jack thought for a moment and found a way. He began to stamp (跺) his foot on the floor, “Bang! Bang! Bang!”The sound woke his grandma up. The old woman shouted downstairs, “It...
I have been professionally involved with Nipah virus, SARS and H1N1 mitigation efforts while living in Singapore, and now COVID while in Canada. I am a retired certified industrial hygienist, ventilation engineer and biosafety/security officer. It has not just been the examples cited in the above...
But researchers say there's simply no track record of infectious diseases being completely eradicated, and everything about COVID-19 shows that it will be no different. "The more infectious a microbe is, the harder it is to control," Dr. Tom Frieden, the CEO of Resolve To Save Lives and...
“There is a lot of bugs and germs going around, whether we’re talking about COVID, flu, RSV, etc.,” says Anthony J. Santella, Dr.P.H., a public health and infectious diseases expert at Fairfield University. “It’s really difficult, particularly for lay people—people who don’t ...
A new study of 57 people with mild COVID-19 estimates how long people are infectious for and when they can safely leave isolation.
How long are you infectious with coronavirus? The most infectious period is thought to be1 to 3 days before symptoms start, and in the first 7 days after symptoms begin. But some people may remain infectious for longer. Commonly reported symptoms for COVID-19 – such as fever, cough and ...
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently said that a COVID-19 could take 12 to 18 months to develop, test and approve for public use. But new vaccines typically take years to earn approval — can we really expect a coronavirus vaccine to...
2022. Infectious diseases specialists are hoping the practice of masking, which emerged in this country as a response to the pandemic, will continue at certain times and in certain places to help reduce the spread of not only COVID-19, but influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (R...
Since the COVID-19 drug, Paxlovid, works by blocking a protease enzyme, should I be concerned about taking digestive enzymes that contain proteases? Find out if taking digestive enzyme supplements that contain proteases might interact with medications that work by blocking a protease enzyme, includi...
Heading back to work is not a zero-risk situation amid the Covid-19 pandemic. From open office plans to break room conversations, many aspects of office culture must change to keep people safe. Here, epedemiologists and infectious disease experts share t