Updated on 01/21/2022 04:57 pm Three large studies published this Friday by the United States Centers for Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that the best protection against the variant omicron of the coronavirus is the booster dose of the vaccines against COVID-19. According to one such analysis, which sampled nearly 88,000 hospitalized patients in 10 […]
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Market and omicron risks pose a new challenge for the Fed’s policy turn
After drawing up a clear battle plan against inflation, the authorities of the Federal Reserve (Fed) from U.S now they must deal with new signs that the COVID-19 is slowing the economy, as well as with markets poised to tighten financial conditions faster than the central bank forecasts. The combination of economic data pushing in […]
The IMF will revise upwards the damage in the world economy by omicron
The managing director of Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), Kristalina Georgieva, indicated that they will revise upwards the losses that COVID-19 will cause to the world economy until 2024 due to the impact of the omicron variant. “The world economy will lose between now and 2024 US$12.5 trillion, and we are going to revise that figure […]
Sputnik vaccine creators claim “strong protection” against omicron
Updated on 01/20/2022 09:57 am The creators of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine claimed “strong protection” against the omicron variant of COVID-19, joining similar statements by President Vladimir Putin. The Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund claimed that its vaccine has “twice the neutralizing effect of viral activity” than that of its competitor Pfizer, citing a study […]
More than three million daily cases of COVID-19 in the world
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The world registered an average of more than 3 million daily cases of COVID-19 between January 13 and 19, a figure that has increased fivefold since the discovery of the omicron variant in late November, according to an AFP tally. In the last seven days, an average of 3,095,971 daily cases were registered, an increase […]
COVID: ómicron is more risky in children, according to South African study
Updated on 01/20/2022 04:21 am The omicron variant may be more dangerous to children than previous coronavirus variants, according to a study of hospitalization data from one of South Africa’s largest health insurance programs. Data from the 56,164 hospital admissions related to COVID-19 among the more than 2 million beneficiaries of the Government Employees Medical […]
The omicron variant gains ground and already concentrates 72% of global cases
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Updated on 01/19/2022 07:25 am The omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, discovered in early November, is already present in 71.9% of the cases analyzed in the last 30 days by the global network of GISAID laboratories, the weekly epidemiological report of the World Health Organization (WHO). Of the 405,000 specimens collected, the […]
With omicron, the world economy sees the opportunity to overcome COVID-19
Governments around the world are relaxing quarantine rules, reviewing controls by the coronavirus and reducing emergency aid from the time of the pandemic, in an attempt to return their economies to a certain normality. The measures, motivated by the less seriousness of the omicron variant and the need to keep workers employed and the global […]
COVID-19: experts estimate that up to 300,000 per omicron could die in the US
Although the variant omicron can cause less severe illness, the number of deaths in U.S is on the rise, and experts predict that an additional 50,000 to 300,000 Americans could die from COVID-19 once the tide subsides in the spring. The seven-day average rate of new COVID-19 deaths in the United States has been rising […]
New study shows that third dose of Pfizer increases antibodies against omicron
Updated on 01/18/2022 03:39 pm A new study evaluating the efficacy of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine against the omicron variant indicates that three doses could offer “a sufficient level of protection” against the disease. The SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) that circulates throughout the world is highly transmissible because it has accumulated a very high number, higher than […]