by media | Oct 29, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
Antibodies are proteins the body produces when an infection occurs. They attach to a virus and help eliminate it. Antibodies can be monoclonal or polyclonal. A monoclonal antibody is an antibody produced by cloning a particular white blood cell. It is derived from a...
by media | Oct 23, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
As many people in the United States are beginning to prepare for fall and winter holiday festivities such as Halloween, Día de los Muertos, Diwali, Thanksgiving, Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s, there is a need to protect...
by media | Oct 13, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
Contact tracing follows case investigation and is a tool for detecting, monitoring, and helping people who may have been exposed to an individual with a communicable disease, such as COVID-19. In order to protect public health, health departments also administer...
by media | Oct 6, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Limited information is available about SARS-CoV-2 infection in U.S pregnant women.Cough (more than 50 percent) and shortness of breath (30 percent)...
by media | Sep 30, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
Influenza is an acute respiratory disease that is caused by influenza viruses, usually subtypes of influenza A or B. COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus infection (called SARS-CoV-2).It is understood that COVID-19 and flu viruses reproduce in...
by media | Sep 29, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
In the height of technology, with the race to produce a vaccine and in the efforts to protect and make new discoveries, COVID 19 has shaken up our world as we once knew it. The aggravating feeling of getting to our favorite stores, restaurants, or markets doors then...
