The best way to combat the effects of infectious disease is to prevent infection in the first instance. This reality was made patently clear with the novel coronavirus pandemic. With that said, there are other viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms that can result in serious and even deadly diseases. If you believe your home or business may have been exposed to some sort of dangerous pathogen – an infectious disease-causing germ – you are wise to consider seriously engaging the services of a professional infectious disease remediation company. Call our veteran-led Infectious disease and decontamination services company.
Construction sites are considered essential, but they still pose risks for everyone working the site. While the need to continue construction work continues, we have to know how to properly protect the workers to protect their health as well as the health of the general public by decreasing the spread of the illness. Contractors should…
We know that drug and alcohol rehab centers are an essential business as the alcoholism and drug addiction doesn’t stop because a pandemic occurred. In order to continue to keep your services going and keep everyone safe, you must follow the recommended guidelines to keep everyone safe from the virus while providing the essential care…
COVID-19 is a serious respiratory disease that spreads quickly. As the number of infected people continues to rise, churches throughout the Los Angeles area must change the way they do things in order to prevent exposure and reduce its spread. As the current Health Office Order states, all non-essential service businesses must stop in-person operations,…
No segment of the population has been untouched by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, a growing number of people have become infected by the novel coronavirus, some individuals becoming seriously and even fatally ill. This healthcare crisis has impacted people in a number of other ways as well, including emotionally, financially, and…
If certain words mark the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are uncertainty, confusion, and hope. This trio of words can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic in a number of different ways, including in regard to combating the spread of the novel coronavirus and what the future holds in store. In addition, a…
Ever since the emergence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the respiratory disease COVID-19, global healthcare leaders have capitulated back and forth regarding the use of face masks to prevent infection. Some countries – especially those who had prior experience with respiratory epidemics such as SARS and MERS – immediately encouraged the use of face…
The state of California, through the Office of the Governor and the Judicial Branch, has initiated some specific steps to place what fairly can be described as a hold on the judicial process associated with residential evictions across the Golden State during and for 90 days after the state of emergency declaration. The state has…
Keeping ahead and having the best information about how COVID-19 spreads is vital. Just prior to May 2020, some reports began to circulate that a possibility exists that COVID-19 may have the capability to remain airborne both in a space lacking circulation and in a location with air handling systems. The bottom line for businesses…
There were some positive indicators during the second half of April that there has been some progress made in different locations throughout California and the rest of the United States regarding reducing the spread of COVID-19. While there has been some headway, at the same time the U.S. Centers for Disease Control made it clear…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, many countries are working tirelessly to connect frontline healthcare workers with life-saving N-95 respirator masks and other personal protective equipment to aid in the prevention of COVID-19 infection. Due to the highly infectious nature of the coronavirus virus, many world governments have encouraged everyone to…
California residential landlords are faced with very real challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 1, 2020, the first traditional rent-paying date during the pandemic, 30 percent of residential tenants across the United States failed to pay rent, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. That number is expected to increase, and perhaps significantly so,…
Novel coronavirus. COVID-19 is known by a few other names, including novel coronavirus. For the purposes of this discussion of the fact that some people who contract a COVID-19 infection and either are not fully recovering from it or are becoming re-infected in short speed, the alternate designation of COVID-19 as a novel coronavirus is…
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the country and the world, more and more essential workers who are still engaging with the public are being asked to utilize personal protective equipment in their daily lives. While PPE may seem a bit excessive at the moment, the use of such protective equipment has…
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the country and the world, frontline workers such as law enforcement and first responders are at risk of encountering individuals who have either tested positive for the disease or are suspected to have contracted it at some point. In order to allow essential personnel to continue…
Businesses of all types have some weighty legal issues to wrestle with in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them are questions regarding the liability of a business to protect workers, customers or clients, vendors, and others from the coronavirus when these individuals are on their premises. As an outgrowth of legal responsibility considerations,…
In primary school, nearly all of us have heard about the 50 individual states in our country being “laboratories of democracy.” In some ways, during the COVID-19 pandemic, each of the 50 states in our nation are not only laboratories of democracy, but they’ve become something of laboratories of medical exploration as different tactics are…
In most cases of a viral infection, if an individual is infected with a particular virus, that person develops an immunity to it. In other words, typically a person infected with a specific virus develops a defense mechanism to it. That individual is able to stave off a future infection by the same virus because…
Information is fundamental as we maneuver through the COVID-19 pandemic. The net effects of living during the era of the novel coronavirus have been significant. Indeed, a fair statement is that life for most people has been upended as the result of the broad array of consequences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Administrators of private pre-K through 12th-grade schools in California are navigating a minefield when it comes to addressing the myriad of issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. All primary and secondary schools in the state, public and private, are on the frontlines – and will remain so positioned – when it comes to preventing, slowing,…
Certain types of professional offices have been considered “essential” during the stay at home mandate of the state of California and local units of government. In other words, these particular businesses or professional offices have been operational on some level during the stay at home and broader business shutdown phase of dealing with the COVID-19…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is likely that a number of vehicles operated by first responders will transport individuals with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19. Here are guidelines to consider during disinfection to ensure that first responders and healthcare professionals are protected from infection from this deadly disease. Whether using a police cruiser or…
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, has been swamped with thousands of complaints from workers in essential industries alleging unsafe conditions arising from COVID-19 safety issues. These safety complaints include: Lack of proper basic personal protective equipment or PPE Lack of proper social distancing or physical distancing Failure to proactively protect workers…
California is home to big box stores that sell groceries, chain grocery stores, and specialty boutique grocers. Typically, a specialty grocer is locally and independently owned, oftentimes a family-owned business. Specialty grocers are considered essential businesses during the stay at home period associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, they are among the businesses that immediately…
California residential landlord and tenant laws have established specific legal obligations that a landlord has to a tenant. Landlords have legal duties to their tenants during the COVID-19 era specifically associated with the coronavirus. There are four specific areas that need to be discussed when it comes to a landlord’s legal duty to the residential…
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life as we’ve come to know it. Our personal lives have been altered because of stay at home orders and the need to maintain distance from people outside our immediate households. In addition to our personal lives, businesses of many types are facing incomparable challenges. These have included everything from…
Oddly during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, a work by a poet from Ancient Rome named Ovid is a highly acclaimed literary masterpiece called Metamorphoses. Metamorphoses is an epic poem in an extraordinary of almost 12,000 lines that chronicle the history of the world from its inception to the exaltation of Julius Caesar as…
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, some general information became available about the primary early symptoms of this type of infection. With an ever-growing number of confirmed cases of people with COVID-19 infections, a more exhaustive list of early symptoms is available, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. These…
As the COVID-19 pandemic rips through the country, including in communities across the state of California, it’s important for you to be fully prepared. You need to comprehensively protect yourself against the different ways in which COVID-19 can upend your life. Of course, this includes making sure that you follow the different strategies recommended by…
As a business owner or manager, you need to develop a COVID-19 risk mitigation plan. You absolutely must be proactive by creating a comprehensive risk management plan that keeps all of your business’ stakeholders as safe and healthy as possible. In developing a business risk mitigation plan, there are a number of factors to take…
The COVID-19 pandemic obviously exposes people from all walks of life to what potentially can be a dangerous virus with the potential for causing severe illness in some cases. Bear in mind that most people that contract the coronavirus have minimal symptoms and some individuals don’t have symptoms at all. In addition to the physical…
Across the country, what oftentimes has been called the “American way of life” has been upended because of the potentially deadly COVID-19. Not only does the COVID-19 pandemic pose a physical risk to people from all walks of life, but it is also taxing the emotional wellbeing of people as well. Psychologists have started to…
At the present time, a fair statement can be made that the COVID-19 currently is raising more questions than which definitive answers can yet be provided. With that said, there are some factors associated with pregnancy, new mothers, and infants that are gaining at least some clarity at this time. In other words, we can…
A term people from all walks of life rapidly have become familiar with during the COVID-19 pandemic is “personal protective equipment” or “PPE.” We are all hearing PPE discussed when it comes to the care and treatment of people hospitalized for the COVID-19 infections. We are learning that there are shortages of different types of…
There are different types of businesses that are in operation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern California as well as elsewhere in the state and across the country. These enterprises remain open even when stay at home and similar types of orders and initiatives are in place. Generally speaking, these businesses have been classified as…
At the beginning of 2019, the coronavirus hit the United States. Highly contagious, COVID-19 can spread from person to person in a couple of primary ways. One of the ways in which COVID-19 spreads is when a person’s hands become contaminated with the virus. One of the frontlines of defense against COVID-19 is properly washing…
There are two important tools that are vital to lowering the number of people infected with COVID-19 in Southern California, throughout the state, and across the country. These are: Quarantine at home when you believe you’ve been exposed to a person infected with COVID-19 Isolate at home when you believe you may have or display…
The global coronavirus pandemic has left us all at risk. Families, business owners, landlords, and others must mount a proper defense to protect against coronavirus contamination and COVID-19 infection. Eco Bear is at the vanguard of providing home, business, rental property owners and others with safe, immediate, and effective coronavirus cleaning and disinfection services. The…
Because the COVID-19 virus is “new,” what technically is known as a “novel virus,” there is a good amount of uncertainty surrounding it. This includes at least some level of ambiguity in regard to COVID-19 or coronavirus waste management. Through this article, we provide essential facts and information regarding coronavirus waste management. This data is…
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the “normal” pace of life in Southern California, elsewhere in the state, and across the country. Few people have avoided the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Landlords are finding themselves in particularly challenging situations as a result of the mandates handed down by the state of California and local…
During the early weeks of what has become known as the COVID-19 pandemic (or coronavirus pandemic), there has been a considerable amount of confusion about the virus, including in regard to the manner of transmission. COVID-19 is a new virus strain. As is the case with nearly any new-found virus, there is at least some…
Odds are you hae heard of a HEPA filter. With that said, if you’re like a considerable majority of people, you really don’t know what a HEPA filter really is nor how it works. HEPA stands for high-efficiency particulate air filter. We present for your consideration specific information about how a HEPA filter works. Design…
A pair of experts took on the topic of challenges of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Marty Markay, MD, discussed the manner in which the pandemic is impacting our society more generally and shared what he thought the future holds in store for us all. Markay is part of the well-regarded team at the John…
In stating the obvious, the ultimate objective of a biohazard remediation service or biohazard cleaning company is to restore your home, business, rental property, or other location to a safe and fully usable condition. What may not be as obvious is that a reputable, experienced, skilled biohazard cleaning company must also maintain a sharp focus…
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, more commonly known as MRSA, is caused by a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics utilized to treat bacterial infections. In a majority of cases, a MRSA infection occurs when an individual has been in a hospital or other type of medical facility or setting. With that said, an…
Understandably, as the COVID-19 pandemic upends life for many, many communities the world over, sharp focus is placed upon the physical aspect of this virus and the disease it can cause. With that said, human health and wellness is comprehensive and not only involves a physical aspect but emotional and mental elements as well. Consequently,…
A great deal of information – and misinformation – has circulated about COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. The importance of accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our communities and society as a whole is crucial. Marty Markay, MD, presented his important thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it’s…
Families throughout Southern California and across the country have understandable concerns about what officially is now the coronavirus pandemic. At the present time, there has been a considerable amount of confusion surrounding the coronavirus and matters associated with this potentially fatal pathogen. Appreciating how confusing the state of affairs is at this time when it…
As a parent, you strive mightily to keep your children safe, sound, and secure on all fronts. This includes protecting them from physical harm, like defending them from the coronavirus. Physically protecting your children may necessitate coronavirus cleanup. Keeping your kids safe requires that they be emotionally secure as well. You need to address their…
Coronavirus that has been dominating news cycles is leading to a considerable amount of confusion despite the immense volume of information being pushed out to the public. Part of the problem is that the state of affairs associated with coronavirus is changing constantly. With that said, some basic information about coronavirus and its potential impact…
Not long after the start of 2020, the media and the public more generally became more sharply focused on the issue of infectious disease. This largely occurred as the result of the discussion about – and confusion over – the coronavirus. Business owners and managers need to take heed to the potential dangers they face…
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