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According to Dr. Emily Landon, a hospital epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist at University of Chicago Medicine, the best way to calculate the risk of transmission when interacting with others is to  “Always choose outdoors over indoor, always choose masking over not masking and always choose more space for fewer people over a smaller space.” Experts agree that […]

The bi-annual tick season began this month. It usually runs through the middle of May, but longer warmer periods resulting from climate change means that ticks could be around for even longer this year. Although human stay-at-home orders because of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 reduce the likelihood that people might come into contact with these […]