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I am an emergency medicine physician in an inner-city emergency department, and I would like to start by stating a simple truth: coronavirus is not going away any time soon.
The identification of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019 has led to a growing and continually evolving body of knowledge about the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.
And young folks who vape and also smoke regular cigarettes have a seven-fold higher risk of getting COVID-19, researchers found.
I'm a global health researcher working to address health and gender inequalities in the Global South. During my work in areas where Malaria or Dengue Fever are endemic, I always took extra precautions to avoid getting infected. I never anticipated that while living in a large, urban city from Canada I would be at higher risk… Until the COVID-19 pandemic.
During lockdown, like most working mothers, I became the major responsible for childcare and housework.
If you're a germophobe who wants to use a public bathroom ever again, you might want to stop reading this.
Because it turns out, while bathroom hand dryers can be more environmental than paper towels, they can also be a whirlpool of faecal matter.
CDC recommends a number of mitigation behaviors to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Those behaviors include:
1) covering the nose and mouth with a mask to protect others from possible infection when in public settings and when around persons who live outside of one’s household or around ill household members;
2) maintaining at least 6 feet (2 meters) of distance from persons who live outside one’s household, and keeping oneself distant from persons who are ill; and
3) washing hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, or, if soap and water are not available, using hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol
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From the CDC:
Here is an excerpt from a doctors perspective on how serious Covid is in America, in your neighborhood, your town.
We aimed to investigate the effects of physical distance, face masks, and eye protection on virus transmission in health-care and non-health-care (eg, community) settings.