Una de cada 10 personas puede tener niveles clínicamente relevantes de SARS-CoV-2 potencialmente infecciosos más allá del periodo de cuarentena de 10 días, según una nueva investigación publicada en el Journal of Infectious Diseases. El estudio, dirigido por la Universidad de Exeter y financiado por Animal Free Research UK, en Reino Unido, […]
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 […]
Una de las tres sociedades científicas aboga por pasar página y volver a la “vieja normalidad” y las otras consideran que es precipitado y alertan de los riesgos de una sexta ola que todavía no ha llegado a su cima Dos años después de que el coronavirus comenzara a propagarse […]
Lack of a high school education is a predictor in whether a person will be resistant to getting the COVID-19 vaccine, a new study shows. Researchers from the University of North Carolina looked at vaccination rates in 3,142 counties in the U.S. They compared them to population characteristics based on […]
Last year’s efforts by public health authorities to ward off a “twindemic” of COVID-19 and influenza appear to have paid off in the form of increased flu vaccinations, according to a CDC report. Recent data from 10 states and New York City show that overall, flu vaccinations increased by 9% during […]
A growing body of data further strengthened the case for Omicron being a less severe variant than Delta, said Anthony Fauci, MD, chief medical advisor to President Biden, during a White House COVID-19 Response Team phone briefing on Wednesday. Given certain caveats, “all indications point to a lesser severity of […]
En esta ocasión se revisan las publicaciones más importantes por su contenido científico y relevancia en la atención del paciente pediátrico durante el año 2021; la pandemia está por cumplir dos años desde su inicio y ha generado repercusiones en la población, una de ellas es la atención médica pediátrica. […]
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 24 (Reuters) – South Africans without symptoms of COVID-19 will no longer need to isolate or test if they have been in contact with a positive case, the government announced on Friday, saying developments around the virus justified a shift from containment measures towards mitigation. The country has […]
Los adolescentes y adultos menores de 21 años que desarrollan miocarditis después de la vacuna de ARN mensajero contra la COVID-19 suelen presentar datos anormales en la resonancia magnética cardiaca, pero la mayoría tiene una evolución clínica leve con rápida resolución de los síntomas, se concluye en un nuevo estudio publicado en Circulation.[1] “Este estudio apoya […]
After a brief lull in activity, weekly COVID-19 cases in children returned to the upward trend that began in early November, based on data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. Vaccinations in children, however, continued to do the opposite by falling for the fourth consecutive […]
