Hand sanitizer has come to the forefront as one of the tools to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, which is the best type to use and how does hand sanitizer work? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advise that…
At the beginning of the pandemic, clinicians decided to reduce health services, such as dentistry, due to the unknown risk of COVID-19 spread and transmission. However, over the last year, research has increased knowledge in this area significantly, and clinical teams now…
COVID-19 vaccines have been at the forefront of the media, and clinicians administered the first vaccinations in December 2020. However, the vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna raised public concern following the reports of potential allergic reactions.
As of the 4th January…
The worldwide impact of influenza on mortality remains one of the most adverse of any infectious disease. In the United States alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that flu has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses,…
With the rapid emergence and spread of COVID-19, governments and public health authorities have introduced several non-pharmaceutical measures to slow the spread and reduce infection rates.
Recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America…
A new research study detects pre-existing antibody-driven immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in some individuals, with higher rates in uninfected children.
Different age groups appear to have different responses to COVID-19, with kids often presenting with mild or no symptoms. However, the reason for…
A recent research study states that large COVID-19 outbreaks in European nursing homes have skewed COVID-19 death data for older age groups.
This renders cross-country comparisons of the pandemic’s scale inaccurate.
Inconsistent data makes estimating the size and infection severity of the…