El nivel de casos parece estar estable, a pesar de los descensos de fines de semana, en alrededor de 5 mil casos diarios. Dado que México continua solo haciendo pruebas de COVID-19 a través de sitios centinela es imposible saber verdaderamente (aunque es posible estimar) el número de casos diarios. […]
As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this pandemic last? It’s an issue surrounded with uncertainties. But the once-popular idea that enough people will eventually gain immunity to SARS-CoV-2 to block most transmission — a ‘herd-immunity threshold’ — […]
A San Diego woman in her late 40s is the first local case of the COVID-19 variant first identified in Brazil, the County Health and Human Services Agency announced today. The woman’s sample was collected on March 5 and went through genome sequencing, which is not available until 2-4 weeks […]
El virólogo del CSIC dirige el desarrollo de un prototipo de vacuna contra el SARS-CoV-2 que protegerá contra la infección y la transmisión del virus Luis Enjuanes vive a contrarreloj desde hace un año. A sus 76 años, lidera un equipo de 16 personas cuyo objetivo es terminar la que […]
A un año del comienzo de la pandemia de coronavirus, van en aumento los casos de personas que padecen el Covid largo, o síndrome post viral, que tras meses de haberse infectado aún tienen secuelas debilitantes y prolongadas de la enfermedad. Se trata de un fenómeno que apenas empieza a […]
NEW DELHI — It is a race against time, with consequences for millions of people in India and beyond. After falling steeply for months, coronavirus cases are surging in the world’s second-most-populous country, pitting a new wave of infections against India’s vaccine rollout. On Wednesday, India recorded 53,476 new cases, […]
A coronavirus vaccine that could be taken as a pill may enter clinical trials in the second quarter of 2021. The oral vaccine is being developed by Oravax Medical, a new joint venture of the Israeli-American company Oramed and the Indian company Premas Biotech, Business Insider reported. So far, all […]
The unchecked spread of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants in Brazil appears to have created even more dangerous versions of the virus that causes COVID-19. The changes are documented by a team of researchers from FIOCRUZ, a large public health research lab run by Brazil’s Ministry of Health. The findings […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed all aspects of the world’s healthcare systems. The sheer volume of pandemic-related research produced over the past year has been challenging to process. This is as it should be, given its unprecedented spread and related morbidity and mortality. However, such rapid production and application leaves […]
Créditos: Comité científico Covid
