Every day, she donned a mask and was vigilant about washing her hands or using hand sanitizer which made the ensuing fever, headaches, sore throat and COVID-19 diagnosis startling. Anna (a pseudonym for privacy protection) has been living with HIV…
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AGS COVID-19 brief offers roadmap to government action for assisted living facilities
In a policy brief published today in its namesake journal, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) offered a roadmap to guide federal, state, and local governments addressing COVID-19 concerns in an important but oft-overlooked arena: Assisted living facilities (ALFs). The brief,…
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Persistence of gut microbial strains in twins, living apart after cohabitating for decades
Your fingerprints stay the same all your life. But what about the “fingerprint” of microbial strains that are shared in the guts of childhood twins? Using a genomics strain-tracking bioinformatics tool developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, researchers…
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