Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144-5591, United States.
ACS Chem Neurosci. 2021 Jan 6;12(1):2-4. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00740. Epub 2020 Dec 18.
For the last 8 months, COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been hovering over the planet as a pandemic, and there is no sign of this virus going away anytime soon. In the meantime, life must go on, businesses must remain open, manufacturing must flow smoothly to fulfill consumers' daily demands, and education cannot be halted. Simultaneously, the frontline workers like doctors, nurses, support staff, and other essential workers are working tirelessly in their respective fields in the absence of a widely available effective vaccine. The question is: What should every citizen who needs to venture out to fulfill their daily business do in addition to wearing a mask, handwashing, and physical distancing? Could we add simultaneous nasal and oral irrigation as a nontherapeutic practice to our personal care list as an additional preventative layer?
在过去的 8 个月里，2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）一直以大流行的形式在全球肆虐，而且这种病毒似乎没有很快消失的迹象。与此同时，生活必须继续，企业必须保持开放，制造业必须顺利运转以满足消费者的日常需求，教育也不能停止。与此同时，医生、护士、支持人员和其他一线工作人员在没有广泛可用的有效疫苗的情况下，在各自的领域不知疲倦地工作。问题是：除了戴口罩、勤洗手和保持身体距离之外，每个需要冒险出门完成日常事务的公民还应该做些什么？我们能否将同时鼻腔和口腔冲洗作为一种非治疗性的做法添加到我们的个人护理清单中，作为额外的预防措施？
