Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition

Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition


Bye-Bye Beards?

May 11, 2020

Quarantine is taking no-shave November to a whole new level. But can beards be hotspots for the coronavirus?  Before you grab your clippers, let’s grow through history!

 

Written and reported by Emily Sarah Sumner, PhD

 

References

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/3/30/21195447/beard-pandemic-coronavirus-masks-1918-spanish-flu-tuberculosis

Barbeito, Manuel S., Charles T. Mathews, and Larry A. Taylor. "Microbiological laboratory hazard of bearded men." Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 15, no. 4 (1967): 899-906.

Wakeam, E., R. A. Hernandez, D. Rivera Morales, S. R. G. Finlayson, M. Klompas, and M. J. Zinner. "Bacterial ecology of hospital workers' facial hair: a cross-sectional study." Journal of Hospital Infection 87, no. 1 (2014): 63-67.

https://historycooperative.org/a-short-history-of-beard-styles/


https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/FacialHairWmask11282017-508.pdf


Knopf, Sigard Adolphus. Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and how to Combat it. The Survey, 1901.

https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/3/17/14939608/beard-popularity-economics