Khalid Simply Says

Checking our temperature has become an essential ritual in this era of COVID-19 pandemic. No one used to care if I had fever, but now fever rules the world. Now everyone wants to know if I have fever. If I do, not only will I be denied entry to a school, office, restaurant, airplane, or a train, but I will most likely be quarantined. So, when the Wall Street Journal published an article on the subject, it gave me the idea to write about fever and thermometers. Heat in the body is produced by metabolic activity, mostly in the muscles and the liver. It is the responsibility of the temperature regulatory center, which is in the brain (the hypothalamus) to maintain a steady temperature. Excessive heat is removed through the skin and our breath. The normal core body temperature is generally defined as 98.6 ºF (37ºC). The body temperature does fluctuate between men and women, time of the day, environmental exposure, clothing, and many other factors. Fever, an elevation in core body...

Survival of Corona Virus in the Air and on the Surfaces Research done at the National Institute of Health, USA Published   in the New England Journal Of Medicine 17 March 2020 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=RP The scientists at the NIH have researched the behavior of the Covid-19 related corona virus in the laboratory and compared it to the SARS related virus (another corona virus). The authors caution that the results should be interpreted with caution because of variables and the fact that the data is based on simulated laboratory environments. For the full article, please use the link to the medical journal provided above. What I learn from this laboratory study is that SARS and the Covid-19 related viruses were compared in the lab as to how long they hung on in the air or on various surfaces, they behaved similarly. The authors state that perhaps the difference between SARS and Covid-19 depends on the amount of virus particles coughed...