Vaccination against Covid19 is starting! How will the vaccine be monitored for safety?
Vaccines
Sarah Whitley Coles, MD
A: Healthcare workers and people in long-term care facilities are starting to get the Covid19 vaccine this week. As vaccine supplies improve, more folks will start to get vaccinated in the coming weeks and months. While safety data from the clinical trials is very good, safety monitoring is ongoing and appropriately a priority. Several existing Read more…
December 14, 2020
¿Se puede transmitir la infección por SARS-CoV-2 a los bebés a través de la leche materna?
Families/Kids Infection and Spread Posts en Español
Daisey Velazquez, Spanish Translation
R: No existe evidencia de que la infección por SARS-CoV-2 se pueda transmitir a los bebés a través de la leche materna con nuevos hallazgos que sugieren que la leche materna en las madres que han tenido COVID-19 contiene anticuerpos específicos de SARS-CoV-2. En un estudio reciente en leche materna de 15 mujeres que se Read more…
December 14, 2020
What can I do to “improve ventilation” in my house or my office? What does that even mean?
Staying Safe
Malia Jones, PhD MPH
A: We recently talked to environmental strategist and air quality expert Dr. Tim McAuley, founder and CEO of CHANGE Environmental, LLC. Dr. McAuley told us that the best thing we can do to protect ourselves is to create cleaner indoor air *in general*. Ventilation–exchanging indoor air for outdoor air–is just one part of cleaner indoor Read more…
A: Healthcare workers and people in long-term care facilities are starting to get the Covid19 vaccine this week. As vaccine supplies improve, more folks will start to get vaccinated in the coming weeks and months. While safety data from the clinical trials is very good, safety monitoring is ongoing and appropriately a priority. Several existing Read more…
¿Se puede transmitir la infección por SARS-CoV-2 a los bebés a través de la leche materna?
Families/Kids Infection and Spread Posts en Español
Daisey Velazquez, Spanish Translation
R: No existe evidencia de que la infección por SARS-CoV-2 se pueda transmitir a los bebés a través de la leche materna con nuevos hallazgos que sugieren que la leche materna en las madres que han tenido COVID-19 contiene anticuerpos específicos de SARS-CoV-2. En un estudio reciente en leche materna de 15 mujeres que se Read more…
December 14, 2020
What can I do to “improve ventilation” in my house or my office? What does that even mean?
Staying Safe
Malia Jones, PhD MPH
A: We recently talked to environmental strategist and air quality expert Dr. Tim McAuley, founder and CEO of CHANGE Environmental, LLC. Dr. McAuley told us that the best thing we can do to protect ourselves is to create cleaner indoor air *in general*. Ventilation–exchanging indoor air for outdoor air–is just one part of cleaner indoor Read more…
R: No existe evidencia de que la infección por SARS-CoV-2 se pueda transmitir a los bebés a través de la leche materna con nuevos hallazgos que sugieren que la leche materna en las madres que han tenido COVID-19 contiene anticuerpos específicos de SARS-CoV-2. En un estudio reciente en leche materna de 15 mujeres que se Read more…
What can I do to “improve ventilation” in my house or my office? What does that even mean?
Staying Safe
Malia Jones, PhD MPH
A: We recently talked to environmental strategist and air quality expert Dr. Tim McAuley, founder and CEO of CHANGE Environmental, LLC. Dr. McAuley told us that the best thing we can do to protect ourselves is to create cleaner indoor air *in general*. Ventilation–exchanging indoor air for outdoor air–is just one part of cleaner indoor Read more…
A: We recently talked to environmental strategist and air quality expert Dr. Tim McAuley, founder and CEO of CHANGE Environmental, LLC. Dr. McAuley told us that the best thing we can do to protect ourselves is to create cleaner indoor air *in general*. Ventilation–exchanging indoor air for outdoor air–is just one part of cleaner indoor Read more…