Like COVID-19 testing sites and vaccines, the supply of pills for the treatment of COVID-19 will be in short supply for months until production can increase. Federal distribution to US states will be population-based, and will likely depend on prescribing physicians Paxlovid from Pfizer Inc .. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said they will […]
Tag: Coronavirus
France registers for the first time more than 100,000 daily infections of COVID-19
Updated on 12/25/2021 10:11 pm France registered for the first time more than 100,000 daily infections since the start of the pandemic almost two years ago, adding 104,611 in the last 24 hours, reported the country’s health authorities. The same sources also reported the death of 84 people in the last 24 hours, until 122,500 […]
China reports its highest number of coronavirus cases in four months
Updated on 12/25/2021 12:01 pm China reported 140 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, the highest number in four months, as authorities struggled to contain the outbreak in several areas, including the city of Xi’an, where millions of people are confined. China, where the new was first detected corovinavirus As of late 2019, it is […]
Over 4,000 flight cancellations add frustration to pandemic
Some 4,400 flights were canceled worldwide over Christmas and thousands more were delayed due to the omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to tracking website Flightaware, adding to the frustration of the pandemic. According to Flightaware.com, as of 0720 GMT, at least 2,000 flights had been canceled around the world on Christmas Day, including roughly […]
Cinema in 2021: lights and shadows of a half recovery
In the ruinous months of 2020 of closed theaters and starving billboards, the who he looked to 2021 as the great year of recovery. Twelve months later, the balance is one of lights and shadows with an industry that does not finish raising its head in the pandemic. With vaccines as the best ally, cinemas […]
The price of being a priest in impoverished Venezuela in times of COVID-19
The largest popular neighborhood in Caracas, Petare, mourned the death of Father Miguel Vargas for COVID-19. It has been a common story in recent months in Venezuela, a Catholic country, with high poverty, in which one in five priests has contracted the coronavirus. “Father Miguel was a very happy man, very helpful and very open […]
COVID-19: omicron is a reminder of the ongoing threat posed by SARS-Cov-2
The appearance of variants such as omicron “Is a reminder of the ongoing threat” posed by SARS-CoV-2 and the importance of vaccines that, with the third dose, they can restore their effectiveness to more than 90%, against severe disease, according to an analysis published by Science. Cambridge University microbiologist Ravindra Gupta and Scripps Research Translational […]
COVID-19: more contagious but less serious, the omicron profile takes shape little by little
Although it is much more contagious, omicron it is certainly much less virulent. One month after its detection in South Africa, this new variant is already better known, although it is not yet known to what extent it will influence the pandemic of COVID-19. What do we know about omicron? Regarding the delta variant, “its […]
WHO gives the green light to the first anti-COVID vaccine produced in Latin America
The World Health Organization (WHO) gave the green light to the first COVID vaccine developed in Latin America: a version of the immunizer from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory AstraZeneca manufactured jointly by Argentina and Mexico, announced the PAHO, WHO office for the Americas. The vaccine, in whose preparation the Argentine company mAbxience and the Mexican company […]
COVID-19 infections soar as Europe protects itself from omicron
France, the United Kingdom and Spain broke records for daily infections of the COVID-19 before the advance of the omicron variant which led Ecuador to decree compulsory vaccination. In the UK, a record close to 120,000 new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Thursday. The increase in seven days is 50% and the number of hospital […]