Disease

Coverage of infectious and chronic diseases — their causes, mechanisms, epidemiology, prevention strategies, and the latest science on how the body fights back.

"A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention tripled mask usage and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, demonstrating that promoting community mask-weari
The Agent. The assumption behind this paper is the equivalence of wildfire “smoke” and PM2.5, as monitored and regulated by the EPA.
Aerosols or Droplets “Aerosols are microscopic liquid, solid, or semisolid particles that are so small that they remain suspended in the air.”
    Methods and Data. We assembled multiple datasets.
In large part, those willing to wear masks and those not are entrenched in their beliefs; probably the same for those on either side of the vaccination and social distancing debates.
Scientists have developed multiple techniques to measure our energy expenditure and assign portions to our metabolism, our body's maintenance, and the energy necessary to go from the couch to the refrigerator and back.
No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is Safe
To mask or not, employer mandates, worker pushback, and the changing landscape of dining in and out. The tradeoff is between risk and your sense of safety.
As I sit here in my living room, I’m bombarded with radiation – thermal radiation from the heat of the day, visible light radiation from the Sun and various lights and displays in the room, radiofrequency radiation from my wireless router and cell