Experts are, therefore, urging people to improve ventilation in order to reduce the spread of the virus
Still, fomite transmission, i.e. through contaminated surfaces or objects, cannot be entirely ruled out
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, public health guidance was largely based on what we knew about past disease outbreaks. To reduce our risk of infection, we were advised to disinfect potentially contaminated surfaces or objects, known as fomites, such as doorknobs and tabletops, as these were thought to be one of the main ways through which one could contract the virus.
Over more than a year, however, scientists have learned a lot more about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid disease, and increasing evidence suggests that our focus should instead shift to preventing airborne transmission.
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Ask ten people what meditation is, and you might get ten answers but they could all be right. It’s a practice that dates back thousands of years and has been part of so many cultures that there are now dozens of ways to do it. Still, they share an underlying similarity: “It’s a practice that cultivates inward investigation,” says Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.
What accounts for meditation’s lasting and widespread appeal? The answer may lie in a growing body of research that confirms what many practitioners have claimed for years: Meditation has been shown to be helpful taming stress and anxiety, reducing cardiovascular risk factors, managing chronic pain, and improving sleep
Weeks after New Jersey began distributing COVID vaccines, Lynne Algrant got a call from Bergen New Bridge Medical Center.
The Paramus hospital, nestled in a county where minorities make up almost half the population, was struggling to sign up nonwhite patients for the shots.
At the same time, Algrant, vice president of a Hackensack nonprofit that works with low-income families, was being peppered by calls from Black, Latino and Asian residents struggling to get coveted vaccines. We thought we were going to be facing hesitancy, and we thought we were going to need to do a lot of community education, said Algrant, who works for Greater Bergen Community Action. What we found very quickly is that people couldn t find appointments and couldn t navigate the system.
Two new plastic surgeons have joined Franciscan Physician Network Hammond Clinic.
Dr. Lisa Whitty Bradley and Dr. Mark Grevious, who are both board-certified in both plastic and reconstructive surgery, are welcoming new patients at the clinic at 7905 Calumet Ave. in Munster, as well as via MyChart virtual visits because of the pandemic.
Bradley studied Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and completed her residency in general surgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria. She did a fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Her clinical interests include breast reduction, implant-based breast reconstruction, scar revision management, and benign and malignant skin lesion management.Â
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