Due to the Omicron variant and the short supply of COVID therapeutics, NIH recommends certain therapies over others for patients at high risk of progressing to severe COVID, said federal officials on a call with clinicians Wednesday. In order of preference, clinicians should use the oral antiviral nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid), the monoclonal […]
¿Hacia dónde vamos en la pandemia? Antonio Zapatero, viceconsejero de Asistencia Sanitaria y Salud Pública de la Comunidad de Madrid, explica, en una entrevista en el plató de ConSalud TV, los posibles escenarios de la pandemia por la covid-19. Si bien, cabe destacar que los virus afectan más a ciertas personas, por […]
Ómicron nos contagiará a todos y así la pandemia terminará… Falso. La variante que hoy azota al mundo, incluyendo a México, puede aún provocar escenarios insospechados pues cuenta con características muy distintas a otras variantes y, además, están dadas las condiciones para el surgimiento de nuevos linajes. ¿Qué sigue después […]
A World Health Organization technical body said on Tuesday that current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be reworked to ensure they are effective against Omicron and future variants of the coronavirus. The technical group, made up of independent experts, said it would consider a change in vaccination composition and stressed […]
Communities around the United States held their breath in fall 2021 when most children and teachers returned to school in person. The start of the school year was relatively uneventful thanks to vaccines, masks, physical distancing in classrooms, and, in some cases, improved ventilation in school buildings. But by the […]
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19’s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of […]
A recent study shows that two doses of mRNA (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) or one dose of viral vector (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccines were insufficient to produce adequate immunity to a lab-created Omicron variant or pseudovirus. The Omicron pseudovirus infected cells at a higher rate than other pseudovirus variants. The […]
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about […]
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Preliminary findings from two South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of “asymptomatic carriage” than earlier variants, which could explain why it has spread so rapidly across the globe. The studies – one of which was carried out […]
La CDMX tiene una saturación hospitalaria del 40.88%, de acuerdo al Sistema de Información de la Red IRAG. El alarmante aumento de casos positivos de COVID-19 ha comenzado a provocar saturación hospitalaria a lo largo de toda la República. De acuerdo al Sistema de Información de la Red IRAG de la Secretaría […]
