Updated on 03/19/2022 04:09 am When their 11-year-old son started losing weight and drinking lots of water, Tabitha and Bryan Balcitis blamed a growth spurt and advice from their health class. But an unusual moodiness and lethargy caused them concern, and tests revealed that his blood glucose levels were extremely high. Just six months after […]
Tag: Covid-19
This is what we know so far about the rise in COVID cases
Cases of covid are declining in the United States and more and more states are lifting their mask mandates. However, in the first 10 days of March, more than a third of wastewater sampling sites in the country showed increasing levels of COVID-19. So the question arises: will COVID ever disappear? For experts, there are […]
Natural antibodies against COVID last at least seven months in children
Updated on 03/18/2022 04:33 pm Children infected with COVID-19 develop circulating natural antibodies that last for at least seven months, according to a new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston and published in Pedriatrics. The research indicates that 96% of those infected studied continued to have antibodies up to seven months later, but 58% […]
China seeks to protect its economy and eases confinement in Shenzhen
China decided to prioritize the economy and the technological metropolis of Shenzhen (south) partially lifted this Friday the confinement decreed by an outbreak of COVID-19, especially in its port, one of the largest in the world and vital for trade. The decision of the city of 17.5 million inhabitants, located at the gates of Hong […]
Total COVID victims is much worse than we think
The global death toll from COVID-19 was possibly more than three times worse than what is officially recorded. As many as 18.2 million people probably died during the first two years of the pandemic, according to the first peer-reviewed global estimate of excess deaths. In their study published in The Lancet last week, researchers at […]
China will maintain its “zero COVID” strategy to curb contagion
Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered Thursday to continue the government’s “zero COVID” policy against the pandemic, at a time when the country is facing its worst epidemic rebound since the first wave in 2020. “We must continue to put people and life first, always stick to scientific precision and stop the spread of the epidemic […]
A fourth dose of anti-COVID vaccine provides marginal benefits against omicron, study reveals
Updated on 03/16/2022 07:50 pm A fourth dose of existing mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 may have only marginal benefits” for healthy young adults, according to a new Israeli study. The authors of the study, led by Gili Regev Yochaywrote that their research seems to indicate that the advantages of the three doses of the vaccine […]
WTO: four manufacturers of anti-COVID vaccines reach a compromise on patent repeal
The four main manufacturers of anti-COVID vaccines reached a compromise on the repeal of intellectual property rights, celebrated the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), who called for a consensus on the issue of all member countries. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala highlighted in a statement the “decisive progress made” by the European Union (EU), the United […]
COVID-19: Ecuador reports its first five cases of BA.2, a subvariant of omicron
Updated on 03/16/2022 03:43 pm The BA.2 subvariant of ómicron is already in Ecuador, with the first five cases reported in southern Guayaquil, the country’s second largest city, the Ministry of Public Health reported in a statement. The cases were reported on Tuesday by the universities that are in charge of doing the genome sequencing […]
COVID-19: WHO notes that the new “deltacron” has a low level of circulation
The World Health Organization (WHO) has observed that the new COVID-19 virus detected in three European countries – France, the Netherlands and Denmark -, which combines the delta and omicron variants, and is beginning to be known as “deltacron“, have “a low level of circulation. The WHO does not rule out, however, that this initial […]