The healing properties of fresh air have been appreciated since ancient times,1 when Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79) recommended that people with tuberculosis breathe in the air of evergreen forests, which happens to be high in ozone, a known germicidal agent.2 In more recent history, outdoor air was considered part of the standard treatment for… Read More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]But any rise in cases linked to the 19 July unlocking is unlikely to show up in the daily data just yet. BBC News – Health
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A new COVID-19 Rapid Test advice sign seen in Central London. ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy Latest coronavirus news as of 4.30pm on 9 July One in 160 people in England are… Read More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hospital admissions are not rising at the same rate as infections across the UK, health officials say. BBC News – Health
Florida becomes third state in the US to surpass TWO MILLION coronavirus infections and the first to cross the 1,000 mark for cases of the UK’s ‘super-Covid’ variant as Spring Breakers party on Florida has recorded 2,011,211 cases of COVID-19 and nearly 33,000 deaths since the pandemic began It is the third state to reach two… Read More »
The Trump administration plans to adopt a decades-old testing strategy that will vastly increase the number of coronavirus tests performed in the United States and permit widespread tracking of the virus as it surges across the country. The method, called pooled testing, signals a paradigm shift. Instead of carefully rationing tests to only those with… Read More »
Workers compensation boards across Canada have received thousands of claims from employees who say they contracted COVID-19 on the job, underscoring how the pandemic has become a new workplace hazard for many Canadians. The flood of unconventional requests is prompting calls to expand the legal definition of occupational disease, which typically includes work-related cancers, asbestosis… Read More »