Updated on 03/09/2022 06:28 am A group of experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that “strongly supports urgent and widespread access” to booster vaccines against COVID-19 in the face of the global spread of the omicron variant, in a reversal of the UN body’s insistence last year that boosters were not necessary […]
Tag: Covid-19
Pfizer will soon submit data from fourth dose of vaccine to FDA
Updated on 03/09/2022 06:22 am Pfizer Inc. will soon submit data to U.S. regulators on a fourth dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said. Bourla said he spent Tuesday morning reviewing new data from several flu vaccine studies. covidincluding one looking at the effects of a fourth dose of the currently […]
The world is ready to move on, but risks remain
Lately, there is less news about COVID. Many feel that it is time to move on. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) website is devoting less space to it. Since the first months of 2020, a list of links related to the pandemic has dominated the site. Now the page dedicates the same amount of […]
The impact of the pandemic on inequality between men and women
The two years of the pandemic COVID-19 have deteriorated the living conditions of the women in the world, especially mental health, the return to working life and the rise in gender-based violence. Sexist violence on the rise The UN Women agency published in November 2021 an investigation based on the testimonies of 16,154 women in […]
Scientists identify new genetic differences in patients with severe COVID
Updated on 03/07/2022 01:10 pm Scientists have identified 16 new gene variants in people who developed severe COVID-19 in a large study that could help researchers develop treatments for very sick patients. The results suggest that people with severe COVID have genes that predispose them to one of two problems: an inability to limit the […]
They discover more than 20 genetic variants that predispose to severe COVID
The world’s largest genetic study on COVID, in which more than 57,000 people have participated, has revealed more than 20 genetic variants that predispose to suffering from the severe form of the disease, findings that will help develop new treatments and prioritize some therapies. The results of the investigation were published this Monday in “Nature”. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic already leaves more than six million dead in the world
Updated on 03/07/2022 01:00 pm The COVID-19 pandemic has already left more than six million dead worldwide as it enters the third year of this health crisis, according to an independent count by Johns Hopkins University in the United States. This tragic milestone coincides with the lifting of restrictions in numerous countries in Western Europe […]
China’s anti-COVID policy under pressure amid rising cases
Updated on 03/07/2022 08:37 am China announced on Monday the highest number of daily cases of coronavirus in the last two years, a new challenge for its authorities, who are trying to tackle outbreaks in more than a dozen cities. More than 500 COVID-19 infections were recorded across mainland China on Monday, the highest daily […]
Arthritis drug reduced Covid deaths in study
Updated on 03/06/2022 05:57 am Eli Lilly & Co. and Incyte Corp.’s rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib reduced the risk of death from COVID-19 in a large UK study, bolstering evidence that the class of drugs that fight inflammation can help infected patients. Add baricitinib to standard treatments reduced the risk of death among hospitalized COVID […]
Omicron would be more lethal than influenza, say Japanese experts
The omicron variant of COVID-19 is at least 40% more deadly than seasonal influenza, according to Japanese scientists, highlighting the potential danger of withdrawing pandemic restrictions too quickly and underestimating the virus’s risks to human health. Health. The mortality rate of the omicron variant in Japanbased on the cumulative excess mortality and contagion figure since […]