If you feel confused about whether people should wear masks and why and what kind, you’re not alone. COVID-19 is a novel disease and we’re learning new things about it every day. However, much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different functions of masks.
Last week, Google and Apple announced that they were working together to develop privacy-protecting technology that could enable COVID-19 contact-tracing apps.
273 detainees, 321 correction personnel, and 53 jail health staffers have tested positive for coronavirus as of Sunday, according to the Correction Department. Additionally, one correction officer and one investigator have died after contracting the virus.
Managers are pocketing large sums while care workers can barely scrape by, says TUC.
According to recent papers that came out in the past week or so, at least in two papers from The Lancet, which is a quite reputable medical journal, there is a correlation between high viral load and more severe symptoms.
The events of January were always destined for scrutiny. The WHO conducts an after-action report in wake of every pandemic. But by seeking to make the global body the scapegoat for the debacle of the US response, Donald Trump has ensured each detail will become exhibits in a highly-politicised show-trial, likely to last as long as the election campaign.
From her home in Winter Haven, Fla., Sanders began compiling reports of public comments by health officials in China’s Hubei province. The officials, Sanders reported on her blog, FluTrackers, had announced an outbreak of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases, caused by a mysterious virus.
The restriction on liquids, gels, and aerosols came around in 2006, and limits those items to 3.4 ounces if carried through security checkpoints and onto planes.
College administrators and government officials summoned students back to campus. Now, they are presiding over viral reservoirs poised to release a flood of infected undergraduates at Thanksgiving -- if they make it that far.
The agency [WHO] noted that human illness from known coronaviruses can range from mild to severe, with some viruses transmitting easily.