Clete Campbell

Iowa’s rivers. They are our waterways. The home of countless Iowa wildlife. Transportation hubs. Beloved recreational spots. The location of countless family memories and moments. And they are more endangered today than they have been before. Two organizations with a clear vision and a deep commitment to bettering the quality of life and health of […]

We’ve all learned to live with countless viral threats during the age of COVID, but the most advanced current strain of the Coronavirus may be one of the most troublesome and sickly variants yet. It’s name is JN.1, and it’s riddling doctors across Iowa and the United States as it infects Americans with little resistance. […]

Updated: April 27, 2023 No disposable protective glove offers the exact same level of protection. In this dangerous public health age when superb hand hygiene and protection is essential, healthcare, industrial and food service workers can’t trust their hands and patients’ and customers’ health to just any disposable glove. All workers, no matter their industry […]

In a day and age when we’re most always on the move, the temptation to wash our hands on the go is real: Rinse and run, air dry on the go. But if you don’t dry your hands after washing them, did you really wash them at all? Unfortunately, the statistics say no. “Wet hands […]

Sadly, Influenza is writing Iowa’s worst comeback story of the year. After lying mostly dormant for the last two seasons, the flu is roaring both across the state and the nation during what has been an alarming and extremely sickly start to the 2023-23 cold and flu season. Arriving earlier than usual, Influenza has already […]

In 1847, a Hungarian obstetrician by the name of Ignaz P. Semmelweiss showed that hand washing greatly reduced infections in newborns. Dr. Semmelweiss attempted to promote hand washing and cleanliness among his colleagues, who were so offended that they committed him to an insane asylum. That was 150 years ago and times have changed. Semmelweiss’s […]

For U.S. children this flu season, there’s no scarier letters than RSV. After two years of lying relatively dormant thanks to COVID-19 social distancing and prevention measures, Respiratory Syncytial Virus has been storming the country coast to coast. RSV, which affects the nose, throat and lungs, is the leading cause of hospitalizations among babies. This […]

As we’ve learned from recent worldwide health epidemics, diseases can spread across the globe as fast as transcontinental 747 flight from Beijing to Boston. One easy daily exercise can go a long way to stopping the spread of dangerous viruses. We all have the power in our own hands to help prevent diseases. We all […]

Hands + Soap & Water = Clean, Healthy Hands. The world’s most powerful, proven formula for strong hand hygiene has gained even more strength in the age of the Coronavirus. From Denmark to Chile, New York City to New Guinea, regular handwashing across the planet is saving numerous lives every day. The theme for Global […]

In the age of the coronavirus, there are seemingly a million germ and virial threats awaiting America’s school kids as they return to class this fall. Thankfully, the nation’s health experts don’t believe the dangerous new Monkeypox virus will be one of them. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention classifies monkeypox as a […]

The virus that refuses to go quietly into that good night is back with a new variant to sicken and disturb Americans just before the dawn of a new school year. The coronavirus has become Webster-Meriam’s new literal definition of a bad penny. It follows the public wherever it may roam. The BA.5 subvariant of […]

After surviving a pandemic, countless flu seasons and an endless daily assault from them, we are all experts at weathering the worst sickly intentions of harmful germs. Heck, we’re at the point where there should be a medal for staying on your feet in a germ-filled world that is getting seemingly germier by the day. […]

Is there anything such as full-proof coronavirus immunity in a Post-COVID-19 America? Unfortunately, the straight answer is no. While COVID-19 has quieted across the U.S. and most of Europe after a vicious winter surge, it’s not an “All Clear” sign and a signal that we can lower our collective resolve to practice social distance rules […]

Influenza has lost its fastball and lost much of its usual sickly bite on the United States of America. While the number of influenza cases rose nationwide after a quiet 2020-21 season, the flu failed to hit pre-pandemic levels this season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Even better, the feared double […]

America’s hand sanitizer supply chain is off the ropes and again running like a fine-tuned machine. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has essentially issued a cease and desist directive to manufacturers of ethanol hand sanitizers prepared under COVID-19 Public Health Emergency policies to manufacture a finished alcohol-based hand sanitizer. The federal mandate is clear: […]

Just when we thought we had passed the peak of the Omicron COVID-19 wave, comes the latest, terrifying punch the coronavirus pandemic has thrown our way: Flurona. What exactly is Flurona? ‘Flurona’ is a term to describe a flu-COVID-19 coinfection. A handful of cases have surfaced in the United States, mostly among children and teenagers. […]

Resolution (New Year’s Definition): A course of action that you have decided on and are determined to complete.  Friends, welcome to 2022: a promising time of new beginnings, a fresh start, and, of course, new resolutions. As we weather yet another COVID-19 resurgence thanks to the troublesome Omicron variant, we can all agree there is […]

If only we could put the coronavirus on a hard No Fly List and Christmas and New Year’s Eve Party Blacklist this holiday season. Unfortunately, in the real, very harsh COVID-filled world we live in, that’s not possible. The sad truth is harmful germs and pathogens will be with us wherever we go and turn […]

They are our trusted first and second lines of hygiene defense. They are germs’ exterminators. They are remarkably efficient cleansers and keeping countless millions of Americans on their feet and healthy during the COVID-19 Pandemic. We all know of what soap and hand sanitizer do, but what exactly are these super germ fighter we turn […]

Have Hand Sanitizer, Will Travel. It’s a smart slogan many Americans are traveling by as the cautiously venture out across town, across state and across the country during the COVID-19 Pandemic. When washing your hands with soap and water is not readily available, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends hand sanitizer as […]

Some hygienic truths are self-evident. Even in the early days of our conscious medical hygienic fight against germs and bacteria, long before the word novel coronavirus appeared in a medical journal or was used at least once by almost every American at least once a day, alcohol’s remarkable ability to serve as a germ-killing agent […]

Updated: May 11, 2021 As we all strive to keep ourselves, families, coworkers, neighbors and communities safe during the COVID-19 pandemic era, hand sanitizer is standard, necessary equipment to help us thwart off infectious bacteria, germs and pathogens. You simply can’t safely leave your home without it. When soap and water are not available, there’s […]

Updated: Friday, April 9, 2021 During these trying, uncertain days, there are two essential hand hygiene measures none of us can live without: Hand Sanitizer and Soap and Water. As we strive to keep ourselves, families, friends and neighbors healthy in the time of the coronavirus, many people are asking hand hygiene’s age-old question. Is […]

They had discovered a COVID-19-neutralizing revelation. As Brigham Young University researchers excitedly reviewed the results of their study, they found a new hope for a weary America and a new truth: the long-held rules have changed in the disinfecting fight against COVID-19.  Extensive research from BYU shows alcohol-free hand sanitizer to be just as effective […]