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With coronavirus spiking, DeWine praises mask mandate but won’t announce his own

BY: - July 3, 2020

An alarming uptick in Ohio coronavirus numbers continued into the Independence Day weekend. But while Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday praised orders in hard-hit Ohio cities to require masks in public places, he wouldn’t impose one statewide — at least not yet. Due to technical problems, new 24-hour data on the spread of coronavirus were […]

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Coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets – here’s the science of infectious aerosols

BY: - May 8, 2020

During the 1970s when I was growing up in Southern California, the air was so polluted that I was regularly sent home from high school to “shelter in place.” There might not seem to be much in common between staying home due to air pollution and staying home to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but fundamentally, […]