Tag Archives: Lockdowns

Weekly Health Quiz: Children, Infections and Lockdowns

1 Research shows that children are: Insignificant disease vectors; they rarely test positive or spread SARS-CoV-2 infection Research shows young children are insignificant disease vectors as they rarely test positive or spread SARS-CoV-2 infection. Learn more. Significant disease vectors; they frequently test positive and spread SARS-CoV-2 infection The No. 1 disease vector for COVID-19 As… Read More »

Coronavirus lockdowns just ‘defer the problem’ of third wave, UK scientist warns

A UK government science adviser warned Sunday that ongoing lockdowns just “defer the problem” — and warned that a third wave of the coronavirus next year is “entirely possible.” Mark Woolhouse, who sits on Britain’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), dismissed the UK’s latest lockdown as trying to “stick this out for another six months”… Read More »

Reopened Schools Find Health Risks in Water After Covid-19 Lockdowns

The new coronavirus is not the only illness that teachers, students, parents and staff will have to worry about as some schools attempt to reopen this fall. Legionella could lurk in the water supplies of school buildings, and some measures to keep people in schools safe from coronavirus may even increase risks from deadly illnesses… Read More »