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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 […]