A team of researchers with the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Fogarty International Center in Bethesda, Maryland, studied the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in China’s Hunan province.
Adding to a continuing stream of good news surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, research from the National Institutes of Health has found that individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 are unlikely to become reinfected with the novel…
The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) and American Dental Association (ADA) have partnered for the first time to conduct a study on the prevalence of COVID-19 among United States dental hygienists.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its own analysis of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) one-shot, easily stored COVID-19 vaccine, finding that the immunization protects against severe COVID-19 illness and death,…
The global pandemic has severely impacted minority populations in the United States, and Hispanic populations have been among some of the hardest hit. COVID-19 illness has disproportionately impacted Hispanic people in addition to the…
Carolyn Patenaude, MSEd, BSRDH, CDA—a faculty member at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, Connecticut—is blogging for Dimensions of Dental Hygiene about COVID-19.
December 2020 marked a hopeful turning point in the…
Pfizer, maker of one of the two currently approved COVID-19 vaccinations, has asked the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adjust its vaccine’s required storage temperature from -112°F to -76°F to -13°F to -5°F. The new…
Dental schools in Scotland will not accept freshman in the fall of 2021 because the previous year’s classes will repeat the same coursework for another year. This decision was made because dental educators did not feel that students…