Key Takeaways The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require vaccine manufacturers to provide two months of safety data before it will approve a COVID-19 vaccine for use by the general public. The FDA believes the two-month period will allow time enough for possible side effects or adverse outcomes of a potential vaccine to[…]
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues and case numbers in the United States keep rising, it’s important that we all pause to ask ourselves this question: “Am I being as vigilant in my efforts to stop the spread as I was back in March and April?” For many of us, the honest response is no.[…]
Key Takeaways More people are working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While avoiding the office and staying socially distant is crucial to stopping the spread of the virus, working from home can bring about other health concerns. A recent study found that 41.2% of at-home workers report low back pain and 23.5% experience neck[…]
The countdown is on to the 2020 Presidential election—debatably one of the most important elections in our lifetime. Normally, the poll sites are packed with people lining up outside voting centers every November. But as COVID-19 has proven, this year is anything but normal, and certain measures must be taken to ensure the highly contagious virus[…]
How to safely go apple picking, enjoy a hayride, take a woodsy hike, hold a tailgate, and do other fall favorites. Fall is here, and that means there’s a range of fun activities you can enjoy with family and friends—in any normal year, that is. But 2020 has brought us a global pandemic, and[…]
Increasingly, home is being seen as the most productive place to work. A 2019 survey of 1,004 full-time employees across the U.S., including 505 remote workers, found that employees who worked from home worked an average of 16.8 more days every year than those in an office. The benefits of home working include: Not suffering the distractions of office life,[…]
By now, everyone knows about the risks of the novel coronavirus. But do you know what it can do to your blood vessels, heart rhythm, or even your brain? What COVID-19 Can Do Doctors continue to learn about the short-term and long-term effects of COVID-19 on your body. For some people, It starts with[…]
A front-line employee with masterful customer skills can seem like they’re performing an act of magic in mask-to-mask communication. How do they intuit what the customer is thinking in a matter of seconds? How is it that they know exactly what to do or say? What seems like gut intuition or an innate ability[…]
Six Online Activities to Help Students Cope with COVID-19 – these well-being practices can help students feel connected and resilient during the pandemic. At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO estimates that 91.3% of the world’s students were learning remotely, with 194 governments ordering country-wide closures of their schools and more than 1.3 billion students[…]
Thanks to the COVID-19 epidemic, people today seem to be preoccupied with killing germs, on everything from the kitchen countertop to their own hands. And our current obsession with hand sanitizer means people carry it everywhere – including leaving a jug of it inside their hot cars. Is that safe? Short answer: Yup. You mean, it[…]