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Health Apr 19

Good ventilation helps prevent COVID spread — if businesses invest in it

By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Science Feb 09

Blacklegged Tick
Why Lyme and other tick-borne diseases are on the rise

The complex interplay of ticks, their habitats and hosts — along with changes in land use and climate — may be enabling the spread of the pathogens they carry.

By Ula Chrobak, Knowable Magazine

Health Jul 29

People wear masks as they pass through a pedestrian subway as cases of the infectious coronavirus Delta variant continue t...
How these mutations made delta the most transmissible COVID variant yet

Scientists are trying to piece together why the delta variant so readily infects unvaccinated Americans, spewing 1,000 times more virus particles.

By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Health Jun 01

Analysis: Monitoring disease ‘hot spots’ could prevent the next pandemic

A more coordinated effort by scientists, stakeholders and community members will be required to stop the next deadly virus that's already circulating in our midst.

By Maureen Miller, The Conversation

Health May 28

As COVID dissipates in the U.S., cold and flu viruses may return with a vengeance

Some experts point to a series of factors that could make for a rough re-entry to the mixed microbes world of cold and flu viruses.

By Helen Branswell, STAT

May 27

Can people vaccinated against COVID-19 still spread the coronavirus?

By Sanjay Mishra, The Conversation

The COVID-19 vaccines are a smash success. But that doesn't mean they keep every vaccinated person completely free of the coronavirus.

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Nov 03

Does weather affect the spread of the coronavirus outside?

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization says the virus can be transmitted in any kind of weather and that there is no reason to believe that cold weather can kill it.

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Oct 29

Here’s what the new CDC guidance on 15 minutes of COVID-19 exposure means for you

By Ryan Malosh, The Conversation

New guidance from the CDC says that 15 minutes of exposure – regardless of whether that occurs at one time – can result in transmission of the coronavirus.

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Oct 02

How long could I be contagious before a positive virus test?

By Associated Press

Studies have shown that people may be contagious for about two days before developing COVID-19 symptoms. Experts say right before developing symptoms is when people are likely the most contagious.

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Sep 22

CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how virus spreads

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the air.

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