After the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), another novel virus in COVID-19 is giving hemophiliacs everywhere great concern. With minimal available information and while studies are still ongoing on how the coronavirus can affect individuals with blood diseases, here’s what we know so far.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic upended people’s lives all over the world, more have reported experiencing depression and anxiety from being in quarantine. To mitigate the spread of the virus, worldwide lockdowns forced people in their homes and out of touch with friends and family.
With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tagging COVID-19’s new variants as more contagious and spiking the number of infected cases worldwide, health experts are weighing in on what type of face masks are most effective to prevent it from further spreading both in the medical and general communities.
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that COVID-19 can spread via respiratory droplets from sneezing, coughing, and talking or through airborne transmission, face covers that can filter aerosol particles have become a part of everyone’s daily essentials wherever we go, and whatever we do.