by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 7, 2020 | Health News
“I’m really grateful that we have a leader in the country — somewhere — who was finally talking about healthy buildings, ventilation and filtration,” Allen said. “That hasn’t happened before. It just hasn’t happened.” Allen was one of 241 scientists who wrote an open letter to the World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 4, 2020 | Health News
Cities opening, people not following preventative guidelines and people traveling could cause a spike in new Covid-19 cases, said Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, during a briefing Wednesday by the Infectious Diseases...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 2, 2020 | Health News
You saved lives. That’s the finding of a study published Monday in the journal “The Lancet: Infectious Diseases,” which used mobile phone data to track how people behaved between January 1 and April 20, a time before widespread calls by state and...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 30, 2020 | Health News
Last year, more than 7,000 people reported injuries related to fireworks around the Fourth of July period, according to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. And this year, sales are way up. “They’re not toys and so oftentimes we see hands...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 29, 2020 | Health News
“He gave his life jacket to save a man,” his daughter Sheryl Blais said, recounting a favorite story of the man she so admired. Her father didn’t drown that day in the Pacific. But he would drown by Covid-19 many decades later on the morning of March...
