They were called healthcare heroes, applauded by strangers in the streets, and given tribute at the presidential inauguration. We watched as they covered themselves in insufficient personal protective equipment and stayed with patients in their last moments. Clinicians lost sleep and risked death as they worked to save patients from COVID-19. They have faced the […]
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The college student population is one of the most susceptible to getting sick. Students go to lectures with 120 other students squeezed next to each other, eat in the dining hall where everyone else has their mouths open, and live in the same building as 200 other students. With shared quarters and all of the
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If you’ve been keeping up with online trends, then you’ve probably heard of ASMR; it’s an acronym for autonomous sensory meridian response, used to explain the experience of feeling tingly sensations in response to certain audio-visual stimuli, or “triggers.” These triggers include personal attention and close-up ear attention. In response to these triggers, tingles start
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