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Flattening the curve is a public health strategy to slow down the spread of an epidemic, used against the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The curve being flattened is the epidemic curve, a visual representation of the number of infected people needing health care over time.
A public service announcement from the Government of California encouraging people to wear masks to "slow the spread". In late March 2020, some government officials began to focus on the wearing of masks to help prevent transmission of COVID-19 as opposed to protecting the wearer; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated in a report that face masks would be "most effective" at slowing its ...
Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by US state. [1]The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is out with new guidance for the 2021-2022 school year, including new mask recommendations and new ventilation efforts to help mitigate the ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed course Tuesday on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S ...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday tightened guidelines on wearing face masks, recommending that, where COVID-19 is spreading, they be worn by everyone in health care facilities and for ...
An outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) started in 2019 [ 3] among users of illegal, unregulated cannabis vaping products, [ 2] almost exclusively in the United States. [ 4] The first cases of this particular outbreak were identified in Illinois and Wisconsin in April 2019; as of 18 February 2020, a ...
A new school year has begun for many kids across the U.S., and others are preparing to return to the classroom soon. This is the third year that students and teachers head back to school while the ...