Updated on 03/15/2022 09:48 am The Brazilian Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, confirmed this Tuesday that the country has registered the first two cases of the new variant of coronavirus known as deltacron, the result of a merger between delta and omicron. Queiroga told reporters that both cases have been registered in the north of […]
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Not even remote Easter Island escapes climate change
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a 24-kilometer-long triangle of land that lies 3,600 kilometers west of Chile, making it one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. The island is famous for its 900 monumental stone statues, between 2 and 20 meters high. These works, one of the most recognized and […]
Pfizer affirms that a fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 is necessary
Updated on 03/14/2022 10:40 am In order to have greater protection against COVID-19 and its variants, the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourlanoted during an interview last Sunday that people will need a fourth dose of the vaccine. “A fourth (dose) booster is needed right now. The protection you get from the third (vaccine) is good […]
How has the pandemic changed after two years?
Updated on 03/14/2022 05:45 am How has the coronavirus pandemic changed after two years? More and more countries are choosing to return to normality and learn to live with the virus. Safe and effective vaccines have been developed, and it is better known how to treat infected people. Two years after the start of the […]
The slow return to normality after two years of pandemic
Now that COVID-19 infections are falling around the world, Emily Safrin did something she hadn’t dared to do for two years: she forgot her fears and went to a concert. This restaurant waitress, who applied all three vaccines, was thinking of leaving her mask on. But when the regatonero Bad Bunny went on stage there […]
COVID can shrink patients’ brains
Updated on 03/13/2022 04:17 am Of the myriad ways that COVID-19 affects the body, one of the most surprising and worrying is that it can shrink the brain. A study published in the journal Nature this week used MRI images taken before and during the pandemic to compare morphological changes in the brains of people […]
Threats to the world economy from the war in Ukraine
the war in Ukraine and the rise in the price of raw materials threaten a World economy still not recovered from the crisis of the COVID-19 and represent a bucket of cold water at the beginning of 2022. A recovery at risk? “The war came at a time when Europe and the United States were […]
Global deaths from COVID-19 would total 18.2 million, triple the official figures
The deaths caused by the pandemic coronavirus in all the world They can be three times more than what the official figures reflect and reach up to 18.2 million deaths, according to a study published by the scientific journal “The Lancet”. The first global estimate of excess deaths submitted to a peer-review process suggests that […]
Modern test to combine its anti-COVID vaccine and a specific one against omicron
Updated on 03/10/2022 10:24 am The American pharmaceutical company Moderna announced this Thursday that it has started clinical trials with a booster vaccine against COVID-19 that combines its original formula with a specific one in response to the omicron variant. In a statement, the company said it plans to involve some 375 people who had […]
COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a threat in the Americas, warns PAHO
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned that the COVID-19 pandemic “remains a threat” in the Americas region despite the decline in infections and deaths. In the last week, new infections fell 26% and deaths almost 19% in the Americas. But two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic for the coronavirus […]