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Despite Allergies, Asthma, a COVID Holiday Can Still Be Merry and Bright
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (Dec. 8, 2020) – You already downsized your Thanksgiving due to COVID-19, and now you’re contemplating a smaller celebration for the holidays. Unfortunately, your allergies and asthma still need full scale precautions to get you through the season.
What does the future hold for allergy and asthma treatment?
The ACAAI Annual Scientific Meeting is your best resource for what’s happening in the world of allergies and asthma.
UCI Podcast: What’s next with COVID
Public health researcher Andrew Noymer discusses how the novel coronavirus will be us for a while
UCI Podcast: Testing and tracing
How student testing and the campus contact tracing program helps control the spread at UCI
Finding OC’s true COVID-19 rates
UCI antibody study finds infection prevalence seven times higher than previously estimated
Antibody screening finds COVID-19 nearly 7 times more prevalent in O.C. than thought
UCI, OC Health Care Agency lead state’s first study to widely test representative sample of residents
Population distribution can greatly impact COVID-19 spread, UCI-led study finds
Contagion disparities can affect perception of risk, demand for healthcare services
Follow expert guidelines to keep Halloween safe for those with allergies and asthma
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (September 30, 2020) – Halloween 2020 won’t look like any Halloween you or your kids have ever experienced. While costumes for past Halloweens have often included masks, we’ve never been cautioned to make sure any mask we wear has at least two layers of breathable fabric that covers our mouth and nose. But this is COVID-19 Halloween, and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) is on board for taking precautions to make sure your kids stay safe – and not just from witches and ghosts.
As fall arrives, so do fire ants in southeastern parts of the US
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (October 1, 2020) – If you live in the southeastern part of the US, you probably know how painful and dangerous a sting from a fire ant can be. Fall is the time of year when fire ants start to become a bigger problem, moving to warm surfaces such as concrete slabs or asphalt roads as soon as the temperature begins to drop.
