Long before he was named the White House’s new COVID-19 czar, Ashish Jha, MD, acknowledged that US strategy to overcome the pandemic needed a new direction. Thanks to safe, effective vaccines, Jha reasoned, it was time to move on from the early goal of trying to prevent every SARS-CoV-2 infection […]
Federal health officials will extend the COVID-19 public health emergency past mid-July, which will continue pandemic-era policies as coronavirus cases increase again. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the emergency order since January 2020. The declaration allows the U.S. to grant emergency authorizations of drugs, vaccines, […]
What you need to know Many people recover quickly from COVID-19. But for some, symptoms can continue months after recovery and may involve multiple organs. This is known as Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. In a study supported by the […]
SARS-CoV-2, or at least pieces of it, sticks around longer in some infected individuals than respiratory sample testing would suggest, a recent study found. After respiratory samples tested negative, a small proportion of the 113 study participants continued to shed SARS-CoV-2 RNA in their feces—about 4% of them for at least […]
Créditos: Comité científico Covid
The FDA expanded an emergency use authorization (EUA) today allowing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot for children between the ages of 5 to 11 who are at least 5 months out from their first vaccine series. According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
Al virus que causa la COVID-19… Créditos: Comité científico Covid
Amid warnings of a new surge, COVID-19 deaths in the United States topped 1 million today, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, a chilling and tragic milestone for a pandemic still bringing waves of grief and disrupting lives into a third year. President Joe Biden last week ordered flags flown at […]
The widespread availability of at-home COVID-19 tests have made it easier for people to know if they have the virus, and to take measures to protect themselves and others. But there is a downside. Because the majority of tests are now done at home and often not reported, the official counts on […]
Un equipo de médicos encontró que la calculadora de riesgo quirúrgico ACS NSQIP, del American College of Surgeons (ACS), predice la mayoría de complicaciones posoperatorias y estima los días de estancia hospitalaria de pacientes mexicanos operados en un escenario de urgencias.[1] Y aunque no fue eficaz para predecir neumonía, infección de vías urinarias o readmisión hospitalaria, […]
