What is an N95 mask and how is it different from a surgical mask? Is a cloth mask safe? George Alba, MD, a clinician-researcher in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, helps explain the specifics and best practices according to CDC guidelines.
At a recent Grand Rounds presentation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Galit Alter, PhD, an investigator at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, discussed what scientists have learned so far about the virology of SARS-CoV-2, and what makes it different from diseases we have seen before.
Based on what scientists have learned from other coronaviruses such as the common cold, reports of reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 are not surprising.
