Resurgent COVID-19, Flu and Other Viruses are Pushing New Zealand’s Health System to the Limit
As Aotearoa New Zealand heads into the colder winter months, the pressures on our health system and staff are growing ...
Tag: Nonpharmaceutical Interventions
As New Zealand Relaxes Restrictions, Steps Can Still Be Taken to Limit COVID Infections
New Zealanders are about to enjoy cautiously relaxed COVID restrictions under the country’s COVID-19 Protection Framework, starting from this weekend. ...
Data Shows Continued Vulnerability of Vaccinated Blood Cancer Patients to COVID-19
Vulnerable groups not mounting sufficient immune responses to vaccination (such as blood cancer patients) urgently require the public to continue ...
Informing Pandemic Decision-Making with Targeted Disease Monitoring
Study led by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends in populations COVID-19 ...
People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – and Paid a Price
Picture the United States struggling to deal with a deadly pandemic. State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing ...
Two Gaps to Fill for the 2021-2022 Winter Wave of COVID-19 Cases
Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proven right. A year ago this week, the communications ...
How Health Care Systems Might Better Manage Multiple Natural Disaster, Outbreak Surges
Health care systems could save lives and minimize losses under multiple disasters and waves of COVID-19 by optimizing resource allocation ...
Humidity in Breath Makes Cotton Masks More Effective at Slowing Spread of SARS-CoV-2
Researchers have come up with a better way to test which fabrics work best for masks that are meant to ...
5 Strategies to Prepare Now for the Next Pandemic
While the world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management experts are already preparing for ...
Can Vaccinated People Still Spread the Coronavirus?
So you’ve gotten your coronavirus vaccine, waited the two weeks for your immune system to respond to the shot and ...
In Tight Spaces, Air Purifiers May Do More Harm Than Good in Spreading Viruses
A computation shows air purifiers in elevators and other confined spaces can actually increase saliva droplet dispersal, spreading COVID-19 The ...
The Response Measures Database: Central Archive of COVID-19 Interventions
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission have ...
Far Too Few Rapid COVID-19 Tests Available in U.S. to Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Since September, the Food and Drug Administration has approved seven COVID-19 tests that yield results in 30 minutes or less, ...
LabX Initiative Calls on Gaming Community to Boost Public Understanding of COVID-19
The National Academy of Sciences recently announced the winners of a LabX creative engagement outreach program competition to create games ...
SARS-CoV-2 Isn’t Spread Very Well By the Small Droplets That Linger Longest
Aerosol microdroplets, the tiny particles that linger in the air longest after we talk, cough, or sneeze, do not appear ...
UC Davis Study Compares Particles Emitted By Different Face Coverings While Talking, Coughing
Laboratory tests of surgical and N95 masks by researchers at the University of California, Davis, show that they do cut ...
A Million Deaths From COVID-19: Experts Consider Key Questions
The pandemic has reached a grim milestone: one million people have now died of COVID-19, according to Worldometers. On January ...
What a Smoky Bar Can Teach Us About the ‘6-foot Rule’ During the COVID-19 Pandemic
When people envision social distancing, they typically think about the “6-foot rule.” It’s true that staying 6 feet from other ...
UCLA Study Backs Decontamination of Single-Use N95 Respirators to Mitigate Shortages
N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers treating patients with COVID-19 and are designed to be used ...
COVID-19 Mistakes in Texas: What Other States Can Learn as Younger People Get Sick
The July 4 holiday weekend usually means cookouts and big gatherings in Texas, but right now, the state is facing ...
