A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom’s next visitor.
Tag: Hygiene and Cleanliness
How to Navigate Your Community Reopening? Remember the Four C’s
Close contact, confined spaces, crowds, choices — these are the considerations to ponder now.
It’s Not Whether You Were Exposed to the Coronavirus. It’s How Much.
The pathogen is proving a familiar adage: The dose makes the poison.
Coronavirus Threatens Chinese Traditions of Chopsticks and Family-Style Meals
Faced with the spread of the coronavirus, the government is promoting using serving utensils, but resistance is strong. Sharing food with personal chopsticks is one way Chinese people express intimacy.
As Europe Reopens Schools, Relief Combines With Risk
Restarting classes is central to reviving economies. But one question haunts the efforts: Just how contagious are children, and could they be the next super spreaders?
As Europe Reopens Schools, Relief Combines With Risk
Restarting classes is central to reviving economies. But one question haunts the efforts: Just how contagious are children, and could they be the next super spreaders?
Coronavirus Lockdowns Strike Australia Residents Hit by Brushfires
A double disaster unlike anything the country has seen before is raising concerns about victims’ mental health and safety.
From Seoul to Sydney, Cities in Asia and Australia Learn to Live with Coronavirus
In parts of Asia and Australia, people are going out — but social distancing and other restrictions have become the new normal.
These Women Were Told Their Help Wasn’t Needed. They Didn’t Listen.
A women’s group in Shanghai started donation drives to get health care workers with crucial personal hygiene supplies. But wary hospitals, hard-to-get road passes and online backlash made the process difficult.
Goggles, Masks, Ponchos: Air Travel in the Days of the Coronavirus
Some people who have had to board commercial flights in recent weeks have taken elaborate precautions to protect themselves from the coronavirus.