COVID-19

Sitting and Smoking, Revisited

With many of the restrictions placed on the general population during COVID-19, there were greater levels of sedentary behavior such as sitting. While sitting has often been heralded as the “new smoking”, this is...

Navigating COVID-19 Vaccine Updates

While vaccination of frontline healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities begins across the nation to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to know where to get trusted information about these...

Building Resilience During COVID-19

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. recently discussed the mental health responses to disasters like COVID-19 with Dr. George Everly, Jr. Dr. Everly is a psychologist and...

Building Resilience to Misinformation

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an immense amount of stress and upheaval - affecting daily routines, social structures, work environments, family life, living situations, financial stability, and coping mechanisms - and has ultimately resulted...

How COVID-19 spreads

Knowledge of the novel coronavirus continues to evolve.  Current understanding supports that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted by respiratory droplets. Information about COVID-19 transmission from the CDC and WHO  is compiled below. Droplet: Respiratory droplets...