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If there’s one thing we hope sticks around long after 2020 and COVID-19 are gone, it’s people’s attention to personal hygiene habits. Frequent hand washing and sanitation have always been a proven way to keep ourselves and others healthy, and now we’re following the recommended guidelines more than ever. Wondering which practice is better? Well, almost all doctors would agree that the best alternative is to later up your hands with warm water and a simple soap. Hand-washing, when done correctly, is more effective against a few particular viruses, such as norovirus. However, we don’t always have access to a...

  This time of the year your young athletes are normally sharpening their skates for ice hockey, buying new Jordan’s for basketball, and bulking up for wrestling. But this winter season, schedules are up in the air. Many coaches, athletes, parents, and their schools are waiting on word from Health Organizations, about whether the Winter Sports Season is a go. It’s a time of uncertainty, and even as the season gets closer and closer, a clear vision of what is the “right” thing to do has yet to come into focus. Whether your young athletes will compete this winter or...

What surfaces are the germiest at grocery stores? We’ve got to tip our hats to grocery store workers. Honestly, before 2020, our biggest concern at the grocery store was usually forgetting the milk. Now we’re thinking about what we’re touching and the hundreds of others who have touched it before us. And grocery store workers have responded to our concerns fast, adding frequent sanitization of surfaces to their list of daily tasks. According to a CBC Marketplace study of 24 grocery stores, workers’ efforts have paid off. The cleanest surface studied was, surprisingly, the shopping cart handle. Researchers credit this...

With the fall sports season coming to an end, what do we know about virus transmission? Many high schools and colleges went into this fall season full of uncertainty. Is it safe to play? Should we sit this season out?   As winter rolls in and the season comes to an end, researchers have begun to tackle the issue of whether, or to what degree, high school football influenced the spread of COVID-19.  In September, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health surveyed 207 high schools participating in fall sports, representing over 30,000 student athletes. According to the...

Whether you own a salon or are going to one, sanitization is more important than ever. Let's get one thing straight: I'm not a germophobe. But with the spotlight on Coronavirus this year, I've been more aware than ever of the little things we do every day that spread germs, and with them, viruses and infections. One of those things was getting my hair cut. Since hair professionals are used to protecting against the spread of illnesses commonly contracted in salons, like Conjunctivitis (pink eye), lice, strep throat, and the common cold, I trusted that my experience would be a...