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COVID-19 precautions crucial at schools

With the COVID-19 delta variant is surging in nearly every part of the United States, but most especially in those parts with high rates of unvaccinated people, it is time to regroup, take a...

DATE: Aug 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Real world conditions prove COVID-19 vaccines’ effectiveness

COVID-19 vaccines have changed the landscape of the pandemic. For the tens of millions of Americans who have been fully vaccinated, the risk of disease and especially the risk of severe dis...

DATE: Jul 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

COVID-19 pandemic becomes a tale of vaccines and variants

Summer is upon us, and the COVID-19 pandemic has grown long in the tooth. The coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been responsible for the worst global pandemic in more than a century. It may yet ...

DATE: Jun 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Commitment required for final push in pandemic marathon

It has been said that complacency is the enemy of progress. This is no less true in public and personal health than it is in our corporate culture and professional lives. It especially hold...

DATE: May 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Feeling pandemic fatigue? The end is in sight, stay the course

These days one of the most common questions I get asked is about how and when the COVID-19 pandemic will end. More than a year into the declared public health emergency, so-calle...

DATE: Apr 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Transparency, education key to vaccine campaign

A year into the declared pandemic, it feels to many like COVID-19 is dragging on. Indeed, this last year seems much longer than just 12 months. That said, public health experts h...

DATE: Mar 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Vaccines can help combat COVID-19 variants

In a little more than a year since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, more than 500,000 American lives have been lost. We passed this grim number within the last week. As...

DATE: Feb 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

In remarkable year, medical science rises to test of fighting COVID-19

January is a time for new starts and resolutions. But like other beginnings, the first month of the year for many is a time for reflection on the year past and any lessons it may have to tea...

DATE: Jan 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Groundwork behind COVID-19 vaccines allowed for quick launch

As we approach the end of 2020, I think that we can all agree that this year has been a challenge on many levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has infected millions and resulted in the ...

DATE: Dec 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Colder months increase importance of public health measures

Winter is coming. In the early spring of 1918, the United States was mobilizing for World War I. Young men traveled from their hometowns to military training camps. But a new thre...

DATE: Nov 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Rigorous process guides development of COVID-19 vaccines

It is becoming increasingly clear that a COVID-19 vaccine will not likely be widely available this year. Public health experts are also uniform in their guidance that a vaccine o...

DATE: Oct 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Simple, crucial ways to curb spread of virus

There has been some recent discussion about routes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. While it has long been acknowledged that this coronavirus spreads...

DATE: Sep 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch