North Korea It began in 2022 with an unprecedented number of missile tests for years, a display of force due more to domestic politics than diplomatic strategy, according to experts. After a decade in power, leader Kim Jong Un has little cause for satisfaction. International sanctions have brought its economy to its knees, the closure […]
Tag: Coronavirus
Pandemic leaves a third of the world’s pilots ‘grounded’
Updated on 01/29/2022 03:31 am More than a third of commercial pilots still don’t fly for a living, according to a global survey, which highlights the widespread damage that the COVID-19 in the industry, as the crisis enters its third year. Only 62% of pilots keep their jobs and 20% are unemployed, according to the […]
China must seek to live with COVID, not defeat it
More than two years after the start of the pandemic COVID-19, China it is the only one of the major countries that continues with a zero-tolerance strategy, seeking to extinguish outbreaks as soon as individual cases emerge. That policy seems increasingly untenable. Chinese leaders should now prepare for a change of course. The appearance of […]
FDA asks to no longer use Regeneron and Eli Lilly antibody drugs against COVID-19
Updated on 01/24/2022 07:24 pm Antibody medications for COVID-19 of the companies Regeneron Y Eli Lilly should no longer be used because they are unlikely to have any effect against the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which currently accounts for the vast majority of infections in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA […]
Desperately waiting to go from pandemic to endemic
A growing number of authorities have uttered the word “endemic” more frequently in recent weeks, and internet searches for the term have skyrocketed. It is not only governments that hope that 2022 will be the year in which the COVID-19 can finally take a backseat in public discourse. People are tired and desperate to escape, […]
Less severe omicron reduces estimated vaccine sales
evidence that omicron causes less severe disease than earlier variants of the COVID-19 will likely curb growth in sales of vaccines this year as richer countries control purchases, according to Airfinity Ltd. Sales of Covid vaccines, excluding those to China and India, will rise to about $85 billion in 2022, down 28% from an earlier […]
UK authorities investigate omicron subvariant
Updated on 01/23/2022 04:28 am health authorities of the United Kingdom announced that they are investigating a version of the omicron variant based on an increase in the number of cases, but that it is too early to assess its importance or seriousness. “The nature of viruses is to evolve and mutate, so it is […]
CDC: A Quarter of US Adults Are Too Lazy
Updated on 01/23/2022 03:30 am Two years after the pandemic normalize working from home and move many social gatherings online, new data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that many Americans were addicted to television long before the COVID-19. A quarter of American adults are not active enough to protect their health, […]
Foreign mail, the last “plagued” in China due to an alleged contagion
Fear has been unleashed among Chinese buyers after the health authorities of Beijing confirmed this last week that the first infected by the variant omicron of coronavirus in the Chinese capital would have been infected after receiving documents from Canada by mail. The virus was detected on the outside and inside of the package, which […]
Natural immunity protected more than vaccines during delta wave in the US, according to study
During the last wave of coronavirus in U.S driven by the delta variant, unvaccinated people who survived COVID-19 were better protected than those who were vaccinated and not infected before, according to a new study. The finding adds to the debate about the relative strengths of natural immunity compared to that acquired through the SARS-CoV-2 […]