A team of researchers at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, working with a colleague from Korea University, has found that etching grooves onto the surface of face masks makes them better at repelling water droplets ...
Children exhale significantly fewer potentially infectious particles than adults—at least this is true for the small respiratory droplets that are predominantly produced in the lungs. This is a key finding of a study conducted ...
Dec 22, 2022
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There's a lot to be jolly about this Christmas. COVID has been significantly, although not completely, "defanged," thanks to vaccines and treatments. Christmas dos, nativity plays and New Years Eve parties are all back on ...
Dec 22, 2022
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The radioactive noble gas radon has anti-inflammatory therapeutic effects but also contains risks. Radon and especially its short-lived progeny are considered to be responsible for about half of the annual radiation exposure ...
Dec 15, 2022
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The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a "tripledemic" of COVID-19, the flu and respiratory ...
Dec 15, 2022
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In early 2020, before COVID-19 vaccines and effective treatments were widely available, universal mask wearing was a central strategy for preventing the transmission of COVID-19. But hospitals and other settings with mask ...
Dec 12, 2022
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that condoms would be made available for free in pharmacies for 18- to 25-year-olds in a bid to reduce unwanted pregnancies among young people.
Dec 8, 2022
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Using a new analytical method, Empa researchers have tracked viruses as they pass through face masks and compared their failure on the filter layers of different types of masks. The new method should now accelerate the development ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here we, a virologist and a public health researcher, debunk some common misconceptions about COVID.
Nov 29, 2022
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Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a "catastrophic moral failure," just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members ...
Nov 22, 2022
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