*One Florida case is listed here but included in the United Kingdom case counts because the individual was tested while in the UK. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html Créditos: Comité científico Covid.
On July 21 of this year, public health officials announced a case of paralytic polio in a young adult in Rockland County, New York, northwest of New York City—the first reported instance of polio in the US since 2013. Although the case was caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus, the patient was unvaccinated and had not […]
Question What are the 2-year health outcomes among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in China? Findings In this longitudinal cohort study that included 1864 patients, the most common symptoms at 2 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection were fatigue, chest tightness, anxiety, dyspnea, and myalgia, and most symptoms resolved from 1-year to 2-year follow-up, although […]
Your phone camera might have another useful feature beyond taking selfies. Engineers at UC San Diego and the University of Washington published a proof-of-concept study that showed a smartphone was capable of detecting blood oxygen levels almost on par with the industry standard medical device. If you’ve ever gone into […]
JYNNEOS vaccine is approved for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox. It is the primary vaccine being used in the U.S. during this outbreak. The JYNNEOS vaccine is given as a two-dose series. The two doses should be given 28 days apart. CDC recommends getting both doses of JYNNEOS vaccine. The […]
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the average rate of assaults with firearms increased an average of 9.5 percent relative to forecasted trends in the first 10 years after 34 states relaxed restrictions on civilians carrying concealed firearms in public. […]
Clinicians should test for parechovirus in young infants with fever, sepsis-like symptoms, or meningitis without another known cause, according to a July 12 CDC health advisory sparked by reports of the illness in several states. Most children have been exposed to parechovirus by kindergarten. Symptoms may vary depending on the strain and […]
On “60 Minutes” on Sunday, President Biden declared “the pandemic is over.” Well into our third year of battling COVID-19, we all wish that were true. But unfortunately, that is a fantasy right now. All the data tell us the virus is not contained. Far too many people are dying […]
Researchers used a recently developed method of wastewater genomic surveillance to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), campus during 10 months of the pandemic. The approach identified viral variants of concern as early as 2 weeks before the variants showed up in clinical tests, the […]
In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve by 2030, everything from ending poverty to achieving gender equality. And each year, this report attempts to answer the question, “How is the world doing?” We want people […]
