Hand Sanitizers & COVID-19: Q&A
Hand sanitizers1 are a type of antimicrobial agent that kills or permanently inactivate at least 99.9 percent of microorganisms when used on the hands. Microorganisms include viruses, fungi, and bacteria….
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A Coronavirus Primer: Transmission & Vaccines
Coronaviruses1 are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses, like the common cold, in people. However, three times in the 21st-century coronavirus outbreaks…
Coronavirus Update for 2-23-20; 14 Confirmed Cases
On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC). On January 31, 2020,…
Coronavirus outbreak in China Info from CDC
2019 Novel (2019-nCoV) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China1. Early on, many of the…