LocalHealthGuide - Part 108

Making your own face bask with cloth, scissors and thread

November 19, 2020 Coronavirus / Prevention

What fabric should you make your face mask from?

Our tests indicated that more suitable fabrics included felted wool, with 36% filtration efficiency, and quilting cotton, with 35% efficiency.

Push Is On in US to Figure Out South Asians’ High Heart

In the US, there’s increasing attention on high risk for heart disease among Americans of South Asian descent, a growing population of about 5.4 million.

November 18, 2020 Biotechnology / Coronavirus / Vaccines

Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines

The coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna rely heavily on two fundamental discoveries that emerged from federally funded research.

Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the U.S. the hospital ship USNS Comfort. The ship cares for critical and non critical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status. Comfort is working with Javits New York Medical Station as an integrated system to relieve the New York City medical system, in support of U.S. Northern Command's Defense Support of Civil Authorities as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 17, 2020 Coronavirus

The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave

I’m exhausted and infuriated to be doing the same interviews and hearing the same stories for a third time. Why haven’t we learned?

Four Aces, Ace of Hearts, Clubs, Spades and Diamonds

November 17, 2020 Brain and Nervous System / Coronavirus / Mental Health / Public Health

How Your Brain Tricks You Into Taking Risks During the Pandemic

The unprecedented nature of the pandemic undermines how we process information and assess risk. Need proof? Look around.

November 17, 2020 Coronavirus / Politics / Public Health

GOP Lawsuits Restrain Governors’ COVID-19 Actions

Republican say governors need legislative approval to shut down businesses, require mask-wearing or force residents to stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID

November 16, 2020 Coronavirus / Laboratory Medicine / University of Washington

Patients admitted to hospital with higher COVID-19 levels more likely to die in next 30 days, UW study finds

Patients who had already made antibodies against the virus on admission tended to have lower virus levels and may do better, the findings suggest..

November 15, 2020 Coronavirus / Prevention / Public Health

Inslee announces statewide COVID-19 restrictions for four-weeks

The restrictions go into effect Monday, November 16 at 11:59 PM

November 12, 2020 Biotechnology / Genetics / Research / University of Washington

UW researchers create molecular atlases that reveal how cells develop and grow

The gene expression and chromatin accessibility atlases will accelerate the study of the genomics of normal and abnormal development.

November 11, 2020 Biotechnology / Coronavirus / Rural Health / Rural Hospitals / Vaccines

Rural hospitals can’t afford ultra-cold freezers to store the leading Covid-19 vaccine

The vaccine has to be stored at -70 degrees Celsius. Typical freezers don’t get that cold, making distribution of this vaccine a logistical nightmare.