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, […]
A third dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for kids ages 5 to 11 years, the FDA announced on Tuesday. The third 10 μg dose may be administered to children at least 5 months after the initial primary series under the terms of the emergency use authorization (EUA), the agency […]
A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health has identified characteristics of people with long COVID and those likely to have it. Scientists, using machine learning techniques, analyzed an unprecedented collection of electronic health records (EHRs) available for COVID-19 research to better identify who has long COVID. Exploring […]
Patterns of inflammatory proteins in the blood of people with long COVID may someday help guide individualized treatment, new findings suggest. Researchers studied 55 people with long COVID who had been only mildly ill with COVID-19 and found that roughly two-thirds had high levels of inflammatory proteins in their blood, […]
Organización Mundial de la Salud: por la pandemia fallecieron 15 millones de personas en 2020 y 2021 La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) estimó que la pandemia de COVID-19 mató a 14,9 millones de personas de manera directa e indirecta entre enero de 2020 y diciembre de 2021, más del […]
Científicos mexicanos desarrollaron un protocolo con un medicamento que demostró ayudar a tratar el proceso inflamatorio que provoca la COVID-19. El estudio, realizado en el Instituto Nacional de Nutrición, utilizó al colágeno polivinilpirrolidona, también conocido como fibroquel, un medicamento 100 % mexicano. El medicamento es utilizado como un modulador de […]
Older patients in Israel who received a fourth dose of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) SARS-CoV-2 vaccine were more than 3 times less likely to develop severe COVID-19 than those who received only 3 doses. But while protection against severe disease did not wane during the testing period, protection against confirmed infection […]
Un nuevo estudio revela que puede existir un vínculo entre los contagios de COVID-19 y los casos de hepatitis aguda registrados en niños de distintos países del mundo en las últimas semanas. El trabajo de investigación publicado en el portal de The Lancet señala que algunos de los niños del Reino Unido e Israel […]
