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CDC: Face Masks Should Be Required On Public Transportation With Covid-19 Coronavirus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also strongly recommends removing passengers who do not wear face coverings.

Overcoming Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

People don’t seem to want to take a Covid-19 vaccine.

KIND, NAMI: How More Doctors Can Get Mental Health Support, Change Medical Licensing

Thirty-two of 50 state medical boards in the U.S. ask medical license applicants mental health questions that are “well outside the limits of ADA standards.”

CVS Health To Hire 15,000 Workers As Seasonal Flu And Covid-19 Collide

CVS Health will hire 15,000 full and part-time workers as the company braces for an influx of customer needs during seasonal influenza season and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Twitter Removes Face Mask Tweet From Trump’s Covid-19 Coronavirus Advisor Scott Atlas

Twitter indicated that the tweet from Scott Atlas, MD, violated its rules against spreading misinformation.

Houston Teen Launches Mobile Covid-19 Testing Lab

Taft Foley, an 18 year-old EMT from Houston launched a mobile Covid-19 test lab which helps to fund free tests for the homeless, veterans and senior citizens.

These ‘Silent’ Mutations May Give Covid-19 Coronavirus An Evolutionary Advantage

Silent mutations in RNA structure and folding may have provided SARS-CoV-2 with an evolutionary edge as it jumped to humans.

Can Frozen Food Packaging Spread Covid-19? China CDC Finds Live Coronavirus

The China CDC has detected and isolated live Covid-19 coronavirus from the outer packaging of imported frozen cod while contact tracing an outbreak in Qingdao, China.

How Science Helped Jacinda Ardern, Labor Party Dominate New Zealand Election, Control Covid-19 Coronavirus

A Lancet Public Health publication detailed what New Zealand did to control the SARS-CoV2.

CDC: How Indoor Sports Like Ice Hockey Can Become Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreaks

A recreational ice hockey game in the Tampa Bay, Florida, metropolitan area was a SARS-CoV2 super spreader event.