While COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on many sectors of society, the leaders of a therapy center at Colorado State University say the move to serving clients remotely last year has had some benefits that will be long-lasting.
“Now more than ever, the next four to six months are the most critical time to really up your mask,” says John Volckens, a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University. (Wall Street Journal)
"A person could be in a bathroom, coughing, without a mask on and you can walk into that space a few minutes later and inhale those particles," said John Volckens, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at CSU. (Salon)
Dr. John Eisenach was inspired by a mentor to create the Colorado COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project Consortium.
The discovery has highlighted how little is known about Mycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy, says immunologist John Spencer of Colorado State University, Fort Collins. The chimp find suggests leprosy “has other niches that it has adapted to,” Spencer says.
Health officials can immediately access this timely data through a dashboard created by CSU.
Panelists will also share information CSU has learned from close collaboration with state and county public health officials.
CSU's John Volckens agreed that "double masking" is better than one because of the quality of masks that most of the public is wearing. (Salon)
From Microsoft Teams to Zoom to Echo360, many faculty at Colorado State University got a crash course in how to use new technologies for teaching remotely last year when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.
Learn about CSU's COVID-19 public health requirements so that you can protect your friends, loved ones, and yourself.