Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, again urged Americans not to let their guard down as the pandemic wears on, ticking off increases in the seven-day average for coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. During a White House briefing, Walensky said the agency’s most recent data shows […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S government’s first look at the real-world use of COVID-19 vaccines found their effectiveness was nearly as robust as it was in controlled studies. The two vaccines available since December — Pfizer and Moderna — were 90% effective after two doses, the Centers for Disease […]
Did you know? CDC’s COVID-NET works with more than 250 hospitals in 14 states to monitor COVID-19-associated hospitalizations by age, race and ethnicity, sex, and underlying health conditions. Explore trends in COVID-19-associated hospitalizations through interactive dashboards on CDC’s COVID Data Tracker: http://bit.ly/CDTcovidnet. Créditos: Comité científico Covid
A special report outlines the challenges — from unleashing the power of mRNA vaccines, to the battle for temporary intellectual-property relief. Within just a few months, pharmaceutical firms have produced hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine. But the world needs billions — and as fast as possible. Companies […]
Two-thirds of epidemiologists from leading academic institutions say the world will need new or modified vaccines for COVID-19 within a year, new research shows. In a survey of 77 epidemiologists from 28 countries by the People’s Vaccine Alliance, 66.2% predicted that the world has a year or less before variants […]
SARS-CoV-2’s infection sites are well known in the airways and other parts of the body, but new research indicates that the virus also infects mouth cells. The findings by Ni Huang, PhD, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Paola Perez, PhD, from the National Institutes of […]
If you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are exposed to someone with COVID-19, you don’t have to quarantine or get tested if you haven’t had any symptoms since exposure. People are considered fully vaccinated: • 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series (Pfizer or Moderna vaccines) […]
Two U.K. cohort studies reported excess risk for death among those infected with B.1.1.7. Several emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) appear to have heightened infectivity and ability to evade natural or vaccine-derived immunity. Among the most prevalent of these is the B.1.1.7 VOC, first isolated in England in October […]
The United States faces “impending doom” as COVID-19 numbers continue to rise and more states loosen restrictions, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said during a news briefing Monday. “When I first started at CDC about 2 months ago, I made a promise to you: I would tell you the truth […]
Monoclonal antibody treatment: GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology are seeking emergency use authorization for their investigational monoclonal antibody treatment for early COVID-19. In an interim analysis of an efficacy trial of nearly 600 adults with COVID-19 who were at high risk for hospitalization, VIR-7831 was associated with an 85% lower risk […]
