Updated on 12/16/2021 05:48 pm The organizers of Miss World 2021 postponed this Thursday for 90 days the final gala of the event, scheduled for tonight at the Coliseum in Puerto Rico, due to cases of COVID-19 detected among contestants and technical staff. The entire team will remain in quarantine and monitoring tests will be […]
Tag: Covid-19
WHO Makes Interim Recommendations for Mixing and Matching COVID-19 Vaccines
Updated on 12/16/2021 04:25 pm The World Health Organization (WHO) issued provisional recommendations on Thursday to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, both for the second dose and for the booster doses. Depending on availability, mRNA vaccines, such as those developed by Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc, can be used as subsequent doses […]
European Medicines Agency supports license to use Xevudy and Kineret to treat COVID-19
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) endorsed the use in the European Union (EU) of two new treatments for COVID-19, the monoclonal antibody sotrovimab (Xevudy) in people over 12 years old and the immunosuppressive drug anakinra (Kineret) in adult patients. . Xevudy is recommended to treat COVID-19 in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age […]
Denmark is the first country in the European Union to authorize Merck’s COVID-19 pill
Updated on 12/16/2021 08:55 am Denmark became the first country in the European Union (EU) to authorize the antiviral treatment molnupiravir, from the US laboratory Merck, for patients at risk with symptoms of coronavirus. The drug in pill form, marketed under the name Lagevrio, was approved in November by the EU regulator for emergency use […]
WHO calls for caution in the Christmas holidays and urges vaccination
Updated on 12/16/2021 07:26 am The regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Europe, Hans Henri P. Kluge, asked Europeans on Thursday to maintain precautionary measures against the coronavirus during the Christmas holidays and urged vaccination. The WHO recalls in a statement that this Christmas Europe will face two highly communicable variants (the […]
PAHO confirms presence of omicron variant in nine American countries
Updated on 12/15/2021 05:29 pm The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) indicated this Wednesday that the omicron variant has been detected in nine countries and territories in America, and assured that so far the delta is the predominant one in the region. “The omicron variant has been detected in nine countries and territories in our […]
European Center for Disease Control Says “Vaccine Alone Will Not Sufficient” Against Omicron
A “strong action” is “urgent“Versus the rapid advance of the omicron variant and”vaccination alone will not suffice“The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned this Wednesday. “In the current situation, vaccination alone will not prevent the impact of the omicron variant, because there is no time to cover the existing vaccination deficits”Stated (ECDC) […]
Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines not effective against omicron, according to Chinese study
Updated on 12/15/2021 06:29 am An investigation by the University of Hong Kong determined that neither the CoronaVac vaccine against COVID-19 developed by the Chinese Sinovac nor the American-German Pfizer-BioNTech are effective against the new omicron variant, local media reported today. According to the results of the study, collected by the South China Morning Post, […]
How did the omicron variant originate? Scientists seek to solve mystery
Updated on 12/15/2021 05:20 am The sheer number of omicron mutations raises many questions: whether the variant will elude vaccines, whether it will spread more easily, and whether it will lead to a severe disease state. The variant’s changes also make scientists wonder about its origins. When the scientist who first detected the new variant […]
Cardiac risk from vaccines would be lower than from suffering from COVID
The inflammation of the heart that some people get after the COVID vaccine occurs much less frequently in response to the vaccine than after the disease itself, according to the largest study on the subject to date. The first dose of vaccines from AstraZeneca Plc, Pfizer Inc. or Moderna Inc. may increase the risk of […]