Todas y cada una de las vacunas contra la Covid-19 que han recibido la autorización por parte de los organismos reguladores pertinentes, han demostrado su seguridad y eficacia. Al igual que sucede con el resto de vacunas que componen nuestros calendarios vacunales, la administración de los sueros puede provocar una serie de efectos secundarios que, […]
A new statistical analysis of an existing meta-analysis reaffirms a finding that hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who are on simple oxygen or noninvasive ventilation can benefit from treatment with the arthritis drug tocilizumab (Actemra) in conjunction with corticosteroids. But the report also casts doubt on the effectiveness of tocilizumab in patients who are on […]
As with diseases such as malaria and HIV, rich countries are “moving on” from COVID while poor ones continue to get ravaged. Americans, by and large, are putting the pandemic behind them. Now that Omicron is in the rearview mirror and cases are plummeting, even many of those who have stayed […]
A real-world, prospective study in a secondary school system showed risk for symptomatic infection to be 9 times higher in unvaccinated children. Recent surveys suggest that many parents are reluctant to permit SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for their school-aged children. In this study, researchers in North Carolina used a private secondary school […]
Several FDA-approved drugs — including for type 2 diabetes, hepatitis C and HIV — significantly reduce the ability of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in human cells, according to new research led by scientists at Penn State. Specifically, the team found that these drugs inhibit certain viral enzymes, […]
Hong Kong (CNN) — Las morgues están casi llenas, los hospitales están abrumados y, a medida que aumentan los temores de un cierre total de la ciudad, los compradores aterrorizados han dejado los estantes de los supermercados vacíos. Hong Kong, una vez elogiado como una historia de éxito de cero covid, ahora […]
La humanidad ya no está indefensa ante el nuevo coronavirus. La letalidad de la covid se ha reducido 20 veces desde hace un año, hasta llegar al 0,15% de la actual ola en España, gracias a la vacunación masiva, pero también al perfeccionamiento de los tratamientos contra el virus. Y el arsenal […]
Finding out your Community Level will help you know what prevention measures to take to protect those at risk of severe illness and reduce strain on the healthcare system. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-by-county.html?fbclid=IwAR3-VsUYCetMh2YKn0FX0l7lvkqMZL3bEnyCGR2mmpI3fWrkKsJRkvt7qqk Créditos: Comité científico Covid
Los niveles de COVID-19 en la comunidad son una nueva herramienta para ayudar a las comunidades a decidir qué medidas preventivas tomar con base en los datos más recientes. Los niveles pueden ser bajo, medio o alto y se determinan a través del análisis de ocupación de camas de hospital, […]
Every time we enter a Covid patient’s room, we first don gloves, and a disposable gown. When we come out of the room, we remove that gear and put it in one of the many bulging disposal bags lining the halls of our hospital. We go through the same process […]
