“The more questions we answer, the bigger new questions arise,” says Dr. Seema Lakdawala, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. Lakdawala refers to the impetuous race scientists like her have embarked on since December 2019 to decipher SARS-CoV-2, which was just beginning to spread by then. More than two years […]
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COVID-19, a crisis also for public liberties
Confinements, health passports … In two years, the crisis of the COVID-19 It unleashed an unprecedented wave of restrictions, which meant a setback in public freedoms difficult to imagine in democratic countries. “We had progressively got used to a society of free individuals; we are a nation of caring citizens, “French President Emmanuel Macron said […]
Disinformation came from the hand of COVID-19 to homes, according to an expert
The pandemic of COVID-19 has demonstrated the breadth and impact of disinformation in society, explains Sebastian Dieguez, a researcher in neuroscience at the University of Friborg (Switzerland), and co-author of the book in French “Le complotisme”. What is your balance of these two years of massive misinformation? “For the first time we are faced with […]
Ómicron: two million daily cases of COVID-19 in the world
Updated on 08/01/2022 06:11 pm More than two million daily cases of COVID-19 were registered on average in the world during the week of January 1 to 7, a figure that doubled in ten days, according to an AFP count. In the last seven days, an average of 2’106,118 daily cases were registered. The threshold […]
Everything that is known about the new variant of COVID-19 called IHU
It has been only weeks since South Africa released the Omicron variant to the world and now French researchers are releasing “IHU”. So far there are only 12 cases in the world, all of them reside in the southeast of France. Origin of the investigation The University Hospital Institute of Infectious Diseases (IHU) de Marseille, […]
With debt and high inflation, Brazilians start 2022 burdened by the economy
Jussara Romero only sees red numbers: the elevated inflation in Brazil and complications derived from pandemic They force her to borrow nonstop, even though this becomes more and more expensive with rising interest rates. Despite the fact that 2021 was anticipated as the year of economic recovery after the pandemic, the crisis is hitting Brazilians […]
The world exceeds 300 million cases of COVID-19 and fights against omicron
The official number of cases of COVID-19, undoubtedly underestimated, surpassed the barrier of 300 million on Friday, at a time when all countries fight against the spread of the variant omicron and increase vaccination campaigns According to the AFP’s calculation based on official balances, at least 300′042,439 cases of infection have been diagnosed since the […]
How does the Omicron variant work and how can we protect ourselves from it?
Updated on 07/01/2022 09:18 pm The variant omicron it seems to have come into the world to expand very quickly. Almost the entire planet is alert to the number of infected COVID-19, as well as the lethality of this new strain. Under this premise, the National Institute of Health made it clear that the omicron […]
To face omicron, a booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna is required, according to study
Updated on 01/07/2022 12:29 pm A study conducted by researchers at the Ragon Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (United States) has confirmed that a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer is needed to provide immunity against the omicron variant of SARS-CoV- two. The research results have been published in the journal […]
COVID-19: infections exceed 300 million in the world
The number of COVID-19 infections registered around the world reached 300 million this Friday, a number that scientists believe could be much higher, due to the number of cases that are not reported. According to the independent count carried out by Johns Hopkins University, with data collected from different official sources, the number of known […]