Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Who, What, Where, When? The COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out

Copper vs. Cuprous Oxide: What is the Difference?

Why are hospitals banning antimicrobials, but not copper?

Copper and Our Innate Immune System

Effective R: The R We Can Affect

Photos from around the country show healthcare and frontline workers receiving the first COVID-19 vaccines, their smiles and confidence becoming a...

Copper is the oldest-known metal used by humankind to make tools and decorations, helping form the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age....

A few years ago, the first rumblings were starting over the use, and possible overuse, of antimicrobials in interior furnishings and materials. As ...

We spend a good amount of time on this blog discussing the new uses of the biocidal properties of copper. We look to the past civilizations that used...

In population science, R stands for how much a population is reproducing. If R is greater than 1, it's growing. If it is 1, it's stable. If it's...

Perhaps nothing brought our world together in a more joyful way than hearing cities across the planet shout, bang pots and pans, and honk horns to...

Last week, we began our comparison of how New York City responded to a global pandemic a century apart. This week, we continue the comparison, this...

In November of 1918, a New York City subway car crashed in Flatbush, Brooklyn, killing 100 passengers and injuring 250 others. Photos of the wreckage...

Two important news articles this week took a long look at nursing homes. One examined the deadly impact of the pandemic on vulnerable nursing home...

When the cases of COVID-19 started to explode in the spring of 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended reporting of...

Imagine a wandering nomadic tribe, toiling by day to find enough food to survive, sleeping only in short bursts in attempts to avoid predators. One...

As weather in the Northern Hemisphere gets cooler, our flu season begins. While social distancing and mask-wearing has kept the flu season at reduced...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Who, What, Where, When? The COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out

Copper vs. Cuprous Oxide: What is the Difference?

Why are hospitals banning antimicrobials, but not copper?

Copper and Our Innate Immune System

Effective R: The R We Can Affect

Who, What, Where, When? The COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out

Copper vs. Cuprous Oxide: What is the Difference?

Why are hospitals banning antimicrobials, but not copper?

Copper and Our Innate Immune System

Effective R: The R We Can Affect

Thankful For: Frontline Workers

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics (Part 2)

A Hundred Years Apart: NYC During the 1918 Flu and 2020 COVID Pandemics

The Future of Nursing Homes: The Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

HAIs In The Time of COVID-19

Bacteria's 3 Real Estate Requirements (and only one of them is LOCATION)

3 Ways to Get Ready for the "Twindemic": Flu & COVID-19