Estamos a punto de cumplir dos años del surgimiento de la pandemia de Covid-19 y todavía hay muchas preguntas sin respuesta. Aunque gracias a las innovaciones actuales fue posible desarrollar una vacuna en tiempo récord. De esta forma se logra evitar cuadros graves de la enfermedad que pueden conducir al […]
Aunque todavía no se conoce el comportamiento de la nueva variante de preocupación ómicron (B.1.1.529) del SARS-CoV-2, la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) resaltó que no existen pruebas de que esa variante pueda eludir la respuesta inmune inducida por la vacunación e instó a la población a seguir completando los esquemas tan […]
The first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the United States was confirmed by officials today in an individual in California who had recently traveled to South Africa. He or she was fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and experienced only “mild symptoms that are improving,” officials with the CDC said. The […]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc’s COVID-19 antibody treatment and other similar drugs could be less effective against the new Omicron coronavirus variant, the company said on Tuesday. The drugmaker said further analyses are ongoing to confirm and quantify this potential impact using the actual Omicron variant sequence. Global markets fell on Tuesday […]
BioNTech and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will likely offer strong protection against any severe disease from the new Omicron virus variant, BioNTech’s Chief Executive told Reuters, as the firm weighs the need to upgrade its commonly used shot. Lab tests are underway over the next two weeks to analyse the blood […]
Just 30,000 letters of the alphabet of life are enough to create the entire SARS-CoV-2 virus, provided those letters find the machinery present in all of our cells to do the hard work. Those letters get copied, and copied, and copied with each new infection, in each new cell, and […]
At 7:30 a.m. on 24 November, Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease researcher at Scripps Research, received an instant message on Slack: “This variant is completely insane.” Molecular evolutionary biologist Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh was reacting to a set of new SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences shared on the global […]
The new Omicron coronavirus variant, which has been detected in several countries in recent days, will spread widely across the world and inevitably reach the U.S., Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Monday. “Obviously, we’re on high alert,” he said on Good Morning […]
Key questions answered about coronavirus variant first detected in southern Africa Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage What is it called? The variant was initially referred to as B.1.1.529, but on Friday was designated as a variant of concern (VOC) by the World Health Organization because of its “concerning” […]
La doctora Angelique Coetzee, presidenta de la Asociación Médica de Sudáfrica, dijo que hasta ahora los pacientes contagiados con la nueva variante ómicron del coronavirus causante de la covid han presentado síntomas muy leves. “Lo que estamos viendo ahora en Sudáfrica, y recuerden que estoy en el epicentro, es extremadamente leve“, […]
