Transmissible Disease Containment

People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are just as infectious as their unvaccinated counterparts, albeit for a shorter period of time, finds an unusual new household study from the United Kingdom. 

Regeneron’s REGEN-COV antibody cocktail significantly reduces the relative risk of infection after exposure to a close contact infected with SARS-CoV-2, new data show. Symptomatic illness is also shorter...

In a simulated meeting with infected and uninfected participants, properly placed portable air cleaners with HEPA air filters slashed virus transmission. Adding masks was even more effective — cutting...

Frontline staff may be exposed to as much or more cough and COVID-19 droplets than ICU workers performing intubations, according to some researchers and anesthesiologists.

The results suggest that PPE is highly effective in acute exposures to SARS-CoV-2, but certain tasks may still be hazardous, investigators say.

Many healthcare workers with secondary jobs move across health settings, and 15% of second jobs for personal care and nursing aides are in other essential occupations, investigators say.

Geriatric medicine experts have released new COVID-19 preparation guidelines that emphasize stringent infection prevention and control.

With about four days between cases, aggressive measures are warranted to help curb the threat, assert researchers.

The virus may live long enough in the environment to find a new host at a later time, say investigators.

G-Con Manufacturing Inc., which makes cleanroom systems, has launched a transmissible disease containment POD. The POD is 8.5 feet and can be transported by tractor-trailer or its own axle system.