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COVID-19 Has Amplified the Superbug Crisis. Hospitals Must Respond Part 2 read part 1 of this blog post here. TB patients have rationed medication, yet another practice known to spur antibiotic resistance. During the pandemic, most countries have reported sharp drops -
COVID-19 Has Amplified the Superbug Crisis. Hospitals Must Respond. When the world gains control over COVID-19, infection control experts won’t get a reprieve. To the contrary, hospitals will need to confront the “pandemic lying in wait”: antibiotic resistance. For decades, -
“Air quality deserves close attention”: Preventing Airborne Infection in the Operating Theatre read part 1 of this blog post here. Air Contamination in the Operating Theatre For decades, a surgical patient’s risk of becoming infected was considered largely a factor -
“Air quality deserves close attention”: Preventing Airborne Infection in the Operating Theatre A few years back, in an operating theatre at a Japanese hospital, two physicians and two nurses donned gowns and gloves and prepared for a total knee replacement -
Singing, Covid-19, and the Future of Live Entertainment – Part 2 Read part 1 of this blog post here. Since the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, singing has been a super-spreading culprit leading to an effect on the future -
“Particles shoot out like a geyser”: Singing, Covid-19, and the Future of Live Entertainment Since the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, singing has been a super-spreading culprit leading to an effect on the future of live entertainment. Around the -
Read part one of this blog post here. “We Need to Face Reality Here”: Hospitals Must Prepare for the Next Pandemic What Hospitals Must Do to Avert the Next Pandemic Certainly, many critical pandemic precautions fall beyond the scope of hospitals. -
“We Need to Face Reality Here”: Hospitals Must Prepare for the Next Pandemic Back in 2018, a year before SARS-CoV-2 began stalking the globe, American scholars issued a report on the likely traits of the next pandemic pathogen. The scholars, from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, were on the hunt -
A live music festival reimagined for the COVID-19 era. Every January, Dublin’s famed Temple Bar district erupts with music and joy, as TradFest Temple Bar — a five-day celebration of Irish music and culture — draws top bands and massive crowds -
Read part one of this blog post here. Infectious Aerosols: Small but Potent Many Covid-19 precautions — plexiglass dividers, desks spaced 6 feet apart, reduced restaurant occupancy — are premised on the notion that large droplets, generated by sneezes and coughs, pose -
Covid-19 Aerosols Are Infectious, And More Dangerous than Droplets – Part 1 More and more evidence supports the case that Covid-19 Aerosols are infectious and more dangerous than droplets, in this blog post we take a look at how a -
Read part one of this blog post here. Aerosol Transmission of Covid: More Prevalent than Presumed For months into the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insisted close-range, large-droplet spread was
