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Real-Time Sanitizers + Coronavirus: Can Ultraviolet Light Save The World Economy Before A Vaccine?

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Real-Time Sanitizers + Coronavirus: Can Ultraviolet Light Save The World Economy Before A Vaccine?
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Can Ultraviolet Disinfectants Save The World Before A Vaccine?:
The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down.

And we’re all looking for some time out in the future when we can escape purgatory and just get back to “normal”.

To survive until then we all wear our masks, some of us poorly, and also try to socially-distance as best we can, too.

One of the other things we do to kill the bug is to clean both hands and surfaces,

But a crafty-team at Columbia found out we might be able to do a lot more than that until the vaccine arrives…

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Coronavirus Activity Risk: Which Of Them Are Safe During A Pandemic? Disease-Experts Create Simple Guide

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Coronavirus Activity Risk: Which Of Them Are Safe During A Pandemic? Disease-Experts Create Simple Guide
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Which Activities Are Risky Or Safe During A Pandemic?:
So one of the biggest problems we have right now is there isn’t much that’s normal.

And even as things reopen and we try to reestablish some normality, we know there are new rules to follow.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the continued closings of places like Restaurants, Bars, & Gyms.

But Restaurants do have one exception: Outdoor Dining while it’s warm enough to do so.

Why is that? Well disease experts in Arizona set out to answer everybody’s questions on that type of thing…

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Introverts & Loners: The Freakonomics Of Helping Society Reboot After Pandemics

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Introverts & Loners: The Freakonomics Of Helping Society Reboot After Pandemics
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Introverts & Loners. A Secret Weapon Against Pandemics?:
One of the strange problems that faces us during the Coronavirus pandemic is that we’re asked to act against our nature.

Everywhere you look, obscuring most of your face is mandated to help other people,

You are further encouraged to stay some distance away from them, too.

At the beginning, we were all told to even Self-Quarantine & Socially-Isolate.

This of-course drove most people a bit bonkers.

But a team of crafty researchers found that for a small fraction of the population, this is not only standard procedure, but it might actually help society…

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The Leaf Face Mask: Bringing A Little Humanity Back To Your Face During The Coronavirus Pandemic

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The Leaf Face Mask: Bringing A Little Humanity Back To Your Face During The Coronavirus Pandemic
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The Leaf Mask. Returning A Little Humanity In The Coronavirus Crisis:
If there’s one thing that’s become increasingly clear as time under the coronavirus goes on despite the scofflaws,

Is that mask-use is maybe the best thing we can do to stop the spread of the disease.

And new tests spring up all the time to show us the amazing difference they make.

But in a counter-intuitive way, the scofflaws may actually be onto something.

Because let’s face it, unless you’re The Dread Pirate Roberts, mask-wearing is a little unnatural.

But that might be about to change due to a group of nerdy-entrepreneurs…

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Wearing Masks & Social-Distancing: Microbiologist Rich Davis Shows Us A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

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Wearing Masks & Social-Distancing: Microbiologist Rich Davis Shows Us A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words
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Dr. Rich Davis Shows Us What Happens Without Distance Or A Mask:
So one of the big problems you run into with public health is getting people to listen.

The CDC can get the word out, but many people are too stubborn or skeptical.

Whether it’s the problems in Northern Italy that Bianca pointed out, or the recent US hot-spots that were likely started on Memorial Day,

People just want to ignore any advice that interferes with their lives and just do things as they’ve always done.

But Dr. Davis came up with a very clever and simple demonstration on Twitter that may prove the old adage…

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Herd-Immunity For Coronavirus: New Model Shows It May Arrive Sooner, Especially In Bergamo Italy

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Herd-Immunity For Coronavirus: New Model Shows It May Arrive Sooner, Especially In Bergamo Italy
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Coronavirus Herd Immunity May Arrive Soon, Just Watch Northern Italy:
Getting the numbers right can be tricky but rewarding pursuit.

Even in the middle of a health crisis.

Whether it’s staying 6 feet apart, self-quarantining for 14 days, or having at-least 4 cloth masks so you can throw 1 or 2 in the wash while you use the others to protect yourself and other people.

Well, an interesting bit of numbers-nerdery has come out of Nottingham, England and it might mean positive change for coronavirus infections is just around the corner…

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Coronavirus Infection Rate: Asymptomatic Carriers Make It 10x Higher Than Previously Thought

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Coronavirus Infection Rate: Asymptomatic Carriers Make It 10x Higher Than Previously Thought
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Coronavirus Infection Rate. Surprising Revision & Asymptomatic Carriers:
So in a time of crisis, we all need some kind of thing we can rely on.

It helps us become reassured that the majority of Chaos is being kept at bay,

It’s a very old instinct, built right into all of us.

So when faced with an uncured pandemic, we tend to have some kind of trust for numbers coming out of official-sounding data sources,

But recent discoveries may revise the reality of the numbers we thought we had right…

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Face Masks & Social Distancing Seem Ineffective And Arbitrary? Not According To A New Study…

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Face Masks & Social Distancing Seem Ineffective And Arbitrary? Not According To A New Study…
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Face Masks & Social Distancing Effectiveness, New Look Confirms:
At times, laws and regulations can seem a bit arbitrary.

Even the WHO itself has been really inconsistent about its recommendations on facemasks, and seems to be constantly correcting itself or walking something back.

Lucky for us, the CDC has been a bit better & more reliable.

But whatever rules & recommendations we get in a difficult time, most of us are willing to follow them out of a sense of caution.

Well, a group of researchers at a Canadian university looked at all the data they could find, and the results on what we’ve been told to do are looking pretty good…

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