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SARS-CoV-2 (pink) infected cell

from patient in MD

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   THE LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS

  • With Vaccines, SNS No Longer Distributes Cloth Mask Layer Science News Through the Florida Press Association

  • Masks w layers that "charge up" cotton

  • US Had 18 Times Infection Rate of EU

  • EU Public Mask Standards

  • Face Masks Escort FL to Phase 3 Reopening

  • Florida Flattens Curve w 3/4th Masking Up

  • Mask-Mandate States Flat while FL Soared July 2020

  • US Had nearly 20 Times EU Infection Rate Summer 2020​

 

Hear and see how invisible droplets emit during speech. Researchers used laser technology to light up the spray of otherwise unseen particles that become "aerosolized"during speech. Don't have time? The left video is short, or go to 01:35 in the longer video on the right to see the magnified spray.

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SNS CONTENT

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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"If we had 60% of the population wearing masks that were 60% effective--you could effectively end the epidemic based on some modeling that has been done," says Gottlieb. "People don't wear masks appropriately--not everyone has high quality masks.  There is more supply in the market, so people can go out and try to get higher quality masks right now." 
--Former FDA Commissioner, Stott Gottlieb, CNBC SPECIAL Q&A, June 17

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FACE MASK SAFETY

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Chiffon, Poly, and Spandex Charge Up Filtration of Cotton Used in Face Masks

Implications for which fabrics, and how many layers of each, to reach for when making home-made face masks with more than 95% filtration efficiency.

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ANY GAP IN YOUR FACE MASK LOWERS

 FILTRATION

EFFICIENCY BY UP TO 50 PERCENT, A NEW STUDY SHOWED. See video SHOWing

DARtS and"gaskets" to CLOSE THE gaps here.

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SHARP SCIENCE

The Virus Up Close: How Scientists Visualize Microscopic Enemies.

 

Visual artist Austin Athman colorizes a SARS-CoV-2 image at NIH-NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Lab.

 

You might have seen beautifully colored images of magnified viruses and bacteria in news stories and on the covers of scientific journals – particularly the SARS-CoV-2 images (the virus that causes COVID-19) appearing everywhere.  While the 

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SARS-CoV-2 

Image of Novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, magnified 30,000 to 90,000 times their actual size, emerging from the surface of cells (gray) cultured in the lab, after duplication. 

 

This scanning electron microscope image shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (orange)—also known as 2019-nCoV—the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (gray) cultured in the lab.

Photo Credit: NIH 

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INFECTED CELL 

“Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2"

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Cells Die When Heavily Infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

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Colorized scanning electron micrograph of dying (apoptotic) cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Photo Credit: NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility, MD.

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EMERGING FROM CULTURED CELL.  This scanning electron microscope image shows novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH

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