Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers expand disease tracking in wastewater

Public health experts commonly track spikes in flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and rhinovirus circulating in a population through weekly reports from sentinel laboratories. These laboratories process samples from ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Imagination exercise helps people get a grip on real pandemic risks

Combining local and very real risk statistics for SARS-CoV-2 infection with an exercise in imagination helped participants in a Duke University psychology study make more realistic decisions about their own risky behaviors, ...

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Vaccine hesitancy poses threat to efforts to end pandemic

Although demand for COVID-19 vaccines currently seems high, vaccine hesitancy could pose a major threat to public health efforts to end the pandemic, according to an editorial published today in the journal Science.

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