“Most people associate grief with death and death alone. And while death is certainly loss, there are many other life events that can produce feelings of grief related to COVID-19,” reports mental health professionals at The Grief Recovery Method. Globally, thousands have lost their lives to this virus since the outbreak began and everyone’s life …
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines contact tracing as, “the practice of identifying and monitoring individuals who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of a communicable disease. Health authorities in all these places are working hard to find the original source, or ‘patient zero,’ using what’s called contact …
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According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), “The overall function of the immune system is to prevent or limit infection.” Amid this COVID-19 pandemic, the global human community is under attack from a single virus. There is no vaccine nor cure for this novel coronavirus yet, and the symptoms vary from …
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Whenever there is a headline that dominates the news, buzzworthy phrases and words commonly used by experts often enter the lexicon of common language. Since the coronavirus outbreak, one such phrase commonly used, has been, “flattening the curve.” Unless you are an epidemiologist or statistician, that may not have been a phrase that you used …
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Data from China suggest that pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases might be less severe than cases in adults and that children (persons aged <18 years) might experience different symptoms than adults.” The CDC followed up with a preliminary analysis of U.S. COVID-19 …