Masks in the grocery store. Kids learning from home. Supply chains interrupted. Heartbreaking statistics. This is life during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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In this series of posts on how to clean your house, we’ve covered some important lessons from the cleanest hospitals: Know your pathogen, pick the...
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Cleaning House, Part 3: Choosing a Disinfectant. What to Sic on the Bugs Making You Sick
There is an astounding array of cleaning products available at your local store, online, and probably just sitting under your sink. Does it matter...
Each day, the White House Coronavirus Task Force leads a press briefing to update the nation on the response to the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus...
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Welcome to Our World: How COVID-19 Introduces Everyone to Life as an Infection Preventionist
The global coronavirus pandemic has offered a sudden welcome into the world infection preventionists face every day: The fight against pathogens....
An early release of a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine tested the survivabilty of the virus that causes COVID-19 in air as well as on...
As awareness of the COVID-19 virus increased, Americans everywhere rushed out to (try to) buy hand sanitizer. All of us now know that washing our...
We deal with the seasonal flu each year, right? Between October and March of every year, millions get infected, tens of thousands develop critical...
In our last post, we explored the basics of virus structure, makeup, size, and shape. We determined that this infectious agent had characteristics of...
What exactly is a virus? We know they are not susceptible to antibiotics. We know that they can cause anything from the common cold, the Spanish Flu...
Data is king. At no other time in history have we had the amount of data available to us to make informed decisions – both as consumers and as...
The history of African-Americans health care is replete with stories of both tragedy and triumph. From the horrific conditions of slavery, through...