Category: COVID-19 prevention measures

Commissioner Suggests Health as Defense Against COVID-19

In a recent opinion piece for the LaCross Tribune, Frank Edelblut, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education, posed what some vaccine-focused health officials on the COVID-19 front lines might call a radical idea: Why not work on getting healthy to fight COVID-19? “It’s not an anti-vaccination statement to say, vaccinating Americans will not…


Cleaning Indoor Air Can Limit Viral Exposure

One strategy to reduce viral illnesses is to lower the concentration of viruses in the air, which may also improve health issues linked with indoor air pollution. Portable air purifiers, also known as portable air cleaners, are one of the easiest ways to accomplish that. A recent study published by Cambridge University Press evaluated the…


Nasal Irrigation May Help Prevent Severe COVID-19: Study

A recent preprint study by researchers at Augusta University and Edinburgh Napier University demonstrates that people who used normal saline nasal irrigation were 19 times less likely to require hospitalization for treatment of COVID-19 than the national rate for hospitalizations. A preprint means that the study hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet. Nevertheless, the results are promising,…