UArizona researchers Altaf Engineer, PhD, and Esther Sternberg, MD, a professor of medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and director of research at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, say the pandemic has forced employers to think about how office spaces can reduce employees' stress and enhance their well-being. The researchers are the lead authors of a new paper that aims to be the go-to guide for architects, planners and others in the building industry for designing spaces that help improve people's emotional well-being and physical health.

When the CDC announced in mid-May that fully vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks in most indoor settings, it felt like a milestone to many Americans. But now that the circumstances have shifted, so should our behavior to deal with them. “The vaccines are highly effective, but we know they’re not perfect, so it’s important to use complementary measures like masking for those areas with higher levels of Covid in the community,” said Saskia Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, an infectious disease epidemiologist and adjunct professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

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Research conducted by Joe Gerald, MD, PhD, associate professor of public health policy and management at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, shows the rate of COVID-19 transmission among children is poised to surpass that of older age groups for the first time. “With continued K–12 in-person instruction, plus opening of our major universities, there will be additional pressure on transmission among children and young adults," Dr. Gerald said.

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Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, an immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson, explains how COVID-19 vaccines provide lasting immune durability. "The quality of the antibody improves over time. It takes far fewer of those new antibodies to protect you. So I think that worrying about antibody decline is not something that's productive," Bhattacharya says. Note: This content appeared on more than 60 local NPR affiliate websites.

Dr. Koenraad Van-Doorslaer, PhD, an assistant professor of virology and immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, says the most effective mask is the N95, usually reserved for healthcare workers, followed by the KN95. "Regardless of what type of mask people are wearing, I think it's important that we wear something," Van-Doorslaer said.