In The News: School of Public Health
Mass gathering events -- sports, music festivals and conferences -- are taking a backseat as the US and the world are faced with threats from an invisible yet dangerous enemy: coronavirus.
In just a few days, a large number of people around the world have changed their life habits to combat coronavirus infection. Classes in schools take place online, public meetings are canceled and many announced sporting events are delayed. How does all this affect recreation?
Going to the park for a run or is it better to spread the mat in front of the TV? Dr. David Nieman of the North Carolina Research Campus and Brian Labus Assistant Professor at the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ School of Public Health in Nevada explain what it is like to train outside in the face of the risk of a coronavirus outbreak.
New data shows that Nevadans age 30 to 39 have tested positive for the new coronavirus more than any other age group in the state, followed by those age 60 to 69, according to a new website launched by state government.
Public health officials consistently promote hand-washing as a way for people to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, this virus can live on metal and plastic for days, so simply adjusting your eyeglasses with unwashed hands may be enough to infect yourself. Thus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have been telling people to stop touching their faces.
Public health officials consistently promote hand-washing as a way for people to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, this virus can live on metal and plastic for days, so simply adjusting your eyeglasses with unwashed hands may be enough to infect yourself. Thus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have been telling people to stop touching their faces.
From school cancellations to store closures to just general uncertainty about life, everyone is feeling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The world is trying to figure out how to practice social distancing while still meeting basic human needs on a daily basis. It’s a lot to deal with, and unfortunately, there’s no pre-existing guidebook for how to do anything in the middle of a pandemic.
While the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, causing running races — and many other large events — to be postponed and cancelled, you might be wondering what you should do for your own personal health and how this could affect your training.
Public health officials consistently promote hand-washing as a way for people to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, this virus can live on metal and plastic for days, so simply adjusting your eyeglasses with unwashed hands may be enough to infect yourself. Thus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have been telling people to stop touching their faces.
Public health officials consistently promote hand-washing as a way for people to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, this virus can live on metal and plastic for days, so simply adjusting your eyeglasses with unwashed hands may be enough to infect yourself. Thus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have been telling people to stop touching their faces.
Restaurants are closed. Grocery stores are slammed. Yet everyone needs to eat. But what are the proper protocols that we should be following in the face of the coronavirus outbreak? Is it safe to order takeout? If you buy produce at Trader Joe’s, does it have the potential to become infected if someone touches it?
If you’ve been to the grocery store in the last week or so, you know it can be an extremely chaotic experience amid the coronavirus pandemic. Clerks are running around doing their best to restock as customers are literally climbing into freezers to reach the last pack of frozen berries shoved in the very back of the top shelf. People are swarming the canned goods sections and those preoccupied with crossing items off their lists are temporarily breaking the rule of 6-foot social distancing in order to get their hands on the ripest bananas.