Updated on 04/01/2022 02:54 pm The omicron variant is estimated to have accounted for 95.4% of the coronavirus strains circulating in the United States since January 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Tuesday. The variant has spread rapidly across the country since its detection on Dec. 1, replacing delta as the […]
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Ómicron: Why do vaccinated people also get COVID-19?
The effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19 continues to be a matter of controversy worldwide, where various sectors of the population who oppose being inoculated have been campaigning denouncing side effects of the doses or even criticizing measures by authorities that encourage the vaccination. The truth is that from the beginning the authorities of different governments, […]
COVID-19: Flurona, neither extraordinary nor necessarily more serious
In recent days a new term has emerged in relation to the COVID-19: fluron, a simultaneous infection of coronavirus and virus of the gripe, something that does not have to be extraordinary or necessarily more serious. The microbiologist José Antonio López Guerrero, director of the Department of Scientific Culture of the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology […]
Boycotts, COVID-19 and controversy mark the final stretch of the Beijing Games
The Beijing Winter Olympics will begin in a month (February 4), marked by diplomatic boycotts, the coronavirus and the uncertainty about tennis player Peng Shuai. From February 4 to 20, the Chinese capital will become the first city to host a Winter and Summer Games, after holding the latter in 2008. Those jousts served as […]
Flurone: what is it and what are its symptoms?
Have you heard of the flurona? It is a very rare word that has been multiplying in Internet searches and that has triggered the alarms in several countries of the world, which is going through a new crisis with the pandemic. Do you want to know what it is about ?, pay attention to the […]
America kicks off 2022 with 102 million COVID cases and omicron advance
America began the year with more than 102 million cases of coronavirus and 2.4 million deaths from the disease, at a time when the omicron variant is gaining strength on the continent by making a presence in 18 territories. In general, the COVID-19 Until this Monday, 102,287,397 people infected and 2,404,354 died on the continent, […]
Ómicron leads many US companies to delay going back to office
The explosion of cases COVID-19 generated in U.S, and especially in New York, for the variant omicron It led many companies to start the year with a return to telecommuting, a formula that they had gradually abandoned during 2021 or that they hoped to banish in 2022. The economic capital of the country, which was […]
Life expectancy in Russia falls after deadly month due to COVID
November was the deadliest month of the pandemic in COVID-19 in Russia, which deepens the demographic crisis that President Vladimir Putin has described as a threat to the future of the country. Last month, there was a record 87,527 deaths associated with the virus, according to data released by the Federal Statistical Service on Thursday […]
Brazil to investigate cruise companies for COVID-19 outbreaks
Brazilian health authorities announced Sunday that they would investigate reports of protocol violations COVID-19 by cruise ships, after outbreaks affected three ships sailing along its coast. “Failure to comply with health protocols and disobedience to restrictive measures imposed by the authorities constitute health offenses that, if confirmed, will result in fines and the suspension of […]
China seeks to be self-sufficient in technology
To help convert to China in a self-sufficient “technological superpower,” the ruler Communist Party is pushing the world’s largest e-commerce company to take on the complicated and expensive task of designing its own computer integrated circuits – a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. Its three-year-old microchip development unit T-Head introduced its third […]